Event overview
The Department of Art Public Talks Programme Spring 2019 welcomes visual and performance artist Rana Hamadeh.
Rana Hamadeh is a visual and performance artist from Lebanon based in The Netherlands. Drawing on a curatorial approach within her artistic practice, she develops longstanding discursive projects that think through the infrastructures of justice, militarism, histories of sanitation and theatre. Her work stems from an extended investigation into specific concepts and terms, treating the field of theory as fiction. In 2011, she initiated her ongoing project, Alien Encounters, which has since been operating as an incubator for a growing series of works that aim at complicating the notion of ‘alienness’. Throughout the project’s chapters (manifested through performances, sound-plays and compositions, networked media, text-based installations and conversations), the ‘alien’ turns into a discursive tool that allows for setting up alternative archives from which to locate corporate and state-sponsored forms of violence and their enabling legal apparatuses. Since 2017, Hamadeh has been developing an extended Opera project, with its first iteration titled The Ten Murders of Josephine. The Opera tests out models for collective thinking around notions of testimonial subjecthood, provincializing citizenship, property, debt and friendship. Hamadeh is the recipient of the Dutch Prix de Rome, 2017.
Her previous solo exhibitions include Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, 2017); The Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, 2016); The Showroom (London, 2016); Nottingham Contemporary (2015) Western Front (Vancouver, 2015); Gallery TPW (Tonoto, 2015) and Kiosk (Ghent, 2014). Group shows include a.o. exhibitions at SALT (Istanbul); Momentum Nordic Biennale; The Moscow Biennial, The New Museum (NY); e-flux (NY); The 8th Liverpool Biennial; Wattis Institute (San Francisco); 12th Biennale de Lyon; The Lisson Gallery (London); Beirut (Cairo) and the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven).
This event is free. No booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 20 Mar 2019 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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