Visiting Artist Lecture:
Emily Jacir
Type
Lecture
Series
Barbara Lee Lecture Series
Location
Old Dominion Fresco Barn
Skowhegan Campus
39 Art School Rd
Madison, ME 04950
Date
7:30 PM
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Emily Jacir’s lecture is a journey through her art practice intimately related to her life, activism, and community organizing.
Her work focuses on themes of transformation, translation, resistance, and the exploration of silenced historical narratives. Emily investigates personal and collective movement through public space and its implications for the physical and social experience of trans-Mediterranean space and time. Emily’s work investigates silenced histories, exchange, translation, transformation, and resistance. Jacir has built a complex and compelling oeuvre through a diverse range of media and methodologies that include unearthing historical material, performative gestures and in-depth research. She investigates personal and collective movement through time and space and its implications on the physical and social experience. Drawing on rituals such as dances, processions and games, the artist charts the way space, collectivity, and memories are claimed.
About the artist:
Emily Jacir has been honored for her work internationally, including an honorary doctorate from NCAD in Dublin, Ireland (2023); an American Academy of Arts and Letters prize (2023); the Andrew W. Mellon Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (2015); and the Alpert Award (2011); Hugo Boss Prize, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008); Golden Lion, Venice Biennale (2007). She is the founder of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem. She has been actively involved in education in Palestine since 2000 and is deeply invested in creating alternative spaces for knowledge production internationally
About the Barbara Lee Lecture Series:
The Barbara Lee Lecture Series is an annual series that features faculty artists during our summer program. During this series, we open our campus to the public, welcoming our friends and neighbors into the conversations that take place at the School. After the summer program, the lectures become part of the Lecture Archive, a growing collection of recordings that can be accessed online or on request.
