Middle Eastern Studies Program Presents
Social and Aesthetic Forms: The Case of documenta 15
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Center for Curatorial Studies 102
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
A conversation with artist Marwa Arsanios, curator Nida Ghouse, and writer Haytham el-Wardany, moderated by Dina Ramadan
Departing from documenta 15, its structures and processes, Marwa Arsanios, Nida Ghouse, and Haytham el-Wardany will discuss the entanglement of social, political, and aesthetic forms that are inherent to art making. Together they will attempt to think about how certain forms pose a threat to western institutions that are deeply rooted in specific histories of art and authorship. What are the political possibilities inherent in collectivities and the forms of knowledge they generate?
Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher who reconsiders mid-twentieth-century politics from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on gender relations, spatial practices, and land struggles.
Nida Ghouse is a writer and curator, currently teaching at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. With Vic Brooks, she received the 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation fellowship and the 2023 Teiger Foundation inaugural grant for the upcoming exhibition Shifting Center at EMPAC, where she is curator-in-residence.
Haytham el-Wardany is a writer and translator, living and working between Berlin and Cairo, whose practice combines fiction, essays, prose, theory, poetry, and experimental writings. He is currently the Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Center for Curatorial Studies 102