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Agnes
Scott College Art Department Atlanta area visual art events September 14th - October 20th October 18 – November 17, 2007 Location: Gallery Stokes, 261 Walker Street SW, Atlanta GA 30313 Tuesday, November 6, 8pm Screening: Artist's Talk: 301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322 This event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. Walid Raad is an internationally prominent artist whose mixed-media installations, videos, photographs, performances, and literary essays explore the experiences and representations of war and the contemporary history of Lebanon. He is well-known for The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project that enlists a fictional universe to explore some of the social, cultural, political, and psychological effects of the Lebanese wars of 1975 to 1991. Born in Lebanon, Raad moved from Beirut to Boston as a teenager, and now lives in New York. His formative years were those of the Lebanese wars, which he describes as events that have "conditioned who I am, how I feel, think, and move in the world." His work has been presented in numerous museums and other institutions in North America, Europe, and the Middle East including the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, in 2007, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and The Kitchen, New York, in 2006, Venice Biennale in 2003, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, in 2002. Raad is an Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union, and a member of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut/New York, http://www.fai.org.lb. April 3 and 4, 2008 SCAD Atlanta will host: The event will include a symposium and juried book arts exhibition. More details are available from their head librarian, Deborah Prosser, dprosser@scad.edu or 404-253-3278. |
Resources
L I S T I N G S New York Times Arts, Friday and Sunday
G A L L E R I E S Museum of Contemporary Art, GA (mocaga)
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