MEMORY, MEDIA AND CULTURAL CREATIVITY
FALL 2009
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PANEL DISCUSSION


Friday, September 25, 12:30–4:00 pm
The Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South at Sullivan Street

"Middle Eastern Art" in Translation: A Conversation with Critics, Artists, and Curators

The groundbreaking exhibit at the Queens Museum of Art, Tarjama/Translation, maps an influential subset of recent work from the Middle East and Central Asia and its diasporas as a complex and dynamic translational undertaking. Rather than highlighting the region as its main thematic or providing a panoramic, and thus fleeting, exposure to “Middle Eastern art,” Tarjama/Translation focuses on the common yet complex theme of cultural, artistic and critical translation. The artists featured in the exhibit scrutinize culture, society, belief, criteria, science, and everyday phenomena as material for translation: they read between the lines, probe the obvious, and burrow through the camouflage of appearances to contemplate cultural specificity and universal relevance. On the occasion of the exhibit's closing, a special panel will examine the challenges and interventions of the exhibit and its implications for the contemporary art world.

For more information, please see http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/neareast.

Hosted by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU, ArteEast, and the Center for Religion and Media at NYU




All events are co-sponsored by Cinema Studies (TSOA), Anthropology and Religious Studies. Additional co-sponsorship by The Council for the Study of Disability, American Studies and SCA.
PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE

All events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Seating is first come, first served.
Persons with a disability are requested to call the Center for Media, Culture, and History in advance at 212.998.3759.
Funding has been provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.