Event overview
Presentation by Mariam Ghani artist, filmmaker writer
Mariam Ghani will screen her 2016 film The Seen Unseen, an inquiry into the afterlives of US-run black sites in Afghanistan, and excerpts from Faqir Nabi's unfinished 1986 film Soqoot, which uses a fictional framework to look at the effects of omnipresent surveillance during the Communist period. She will discuss how these films relate to ongoing research and collaborations, respectively the experimental archive Index of the Disappeared and the feature film and curatorial series What we left unfinished, and how the regime's resistance to being known, seen, or narrated recurs across and affects both projects.
Followed by a Q&A led by Meenakshi Thirukode
Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work looks at places and moments where social, political, and cultural structures take on visible forms. Solo exhibitions include the Queens Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Rogaland Kunstsenter, and the Gatchina Museum. Notable group exhibitions and screenings include the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Liverpool Biennial, the Sharjah Biennial, the Dhaka Art Summit, Documenta 13, the National Gallery in DC, the Secession in Vienna, the CCCB in Barcelona, and the Met Breuer, MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York. Recent texts have been published in Creative Time Reports, Ibraaz, Triple Canopy, and the readers Critical Writing Ensembles, Dissonant Archives, and Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000-2015.
Ghani has collaborated with artist Chitra Ganesh since 2004 as Index of the Disappeared, an experimental archive of post-9/11 detentions, deportations, renditions and reductions; with choreographer Erin Kelly and composer Qasim Naqvi since 2006 on the video series Performed Places; and with media archive collective Pad.ma since 2012 on the digitization and dissemination of the Afghan Films archive. Ghani holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and has received a number of awards, grants and fellowships, most recently from Creative Capital. She teaches at Queens College, CUNY, and Cooper Union.
Dates & times
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| 1 Mar 2017 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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