Yael Bartana, Resident Artist Lecture 2016

Artist Yael Bartana gives a lecture talking about her interdisciplinary practice rooted in film and language, and how these ideas are used in her work to approach a wider audience. Throughout the lecture, Bartana screens a series of her films, and speaks about ideas around history, politics, propaganda and the need to foster a political imagination through revisiting collective memories of nation and state. Baritone talks about how these connections in her work have ultimately led her to think as a way to imagine new realities. Bartana also talks about the need to focus on narratives of women in collective histories, collective vs individual state rituals, propaganda as a way to act towards reality, and ying symbolism to critique nationalism history.