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SOME EVENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION: NYU’s Grey Art Gallery Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery. SCREENING/ DISCUSSION Saturday/ September 12th/ 2-5 PM PUBLIC SCREENING/DISCUSSION Filmmaker Beck Cole will premiere and discuss her recent documentaries addressing the Indigenous cultural rights and creativity. A Fair Go for a Dark Race (2008, 55 min.) Excerpts from: Lore of Love (2005, 25 min) In Collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian. DISTINGUISHED LECTURE Thursday/ September 17/ 6:30- 8:30PM Fred Myers, Silver Professor and Chair of Anthropology, NYU Showing Too Much, Showing Too Little: The Predicament of Aboriginal Painting in Central Australia Myers explores how aboriginal painters negotiate cultural restrictions in creating public work. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery. PANEL DISCUSSION Friday/ September 25th/ 12:30-4:00PM "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 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. SCREENING/DISCUSSION Reel Bad Arabs In conversation with Jack Tchen. Post screening discussion with the filmmaker. Presented by the Asian Pacific American Institute and The Center for Religion and Media. SCREENING/ DISCUSSION Project Kashmir (2008, 89 minutes) Two American friends from opposite sides of the divide investigate the war in Kashmir and find their friendship tested over deeply rooted political, cultural and religious biases they never had to face in the U.S. Post-screening discussion with filmmakers. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Dialogues: Islamic World- U.S.- The West and the Hagop Kevorkian Center. Click here for the event flyer. SCREENING/ DISCUSSION Flow (84 min, 2008) Flow is an awarding winning documentary about the World Water Crisis. Post screening discussion with the filmmaker. Click here for the event flyer. Presented by The McGee School. SCREENING/ DISCUSSION Memefactory This performance is a fast paced tour of how memes-- units of cultural meaning-- travel through the internet. In collaboration with Free Culture NYC. SCREENING/ DISCUSSION Citizen Tanouye (58 minutes, 2005) Post screening discussion with the filmmaker. Presented by the Asian Pacific American Institute. Co-sponsored by The Japanese American Association and The Center for Media, Culture & History. SCREENING/ DISCUSSION Our Disappeared (99 min., 2008) A filmmaker returns to Argentina to trace the fate of friends and family who were kidnapped, tortured and “disappeared” by the military during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker. Co-sponsored by The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and The Center for Latin American Studies. FILM FESTIVAL A Cinema Across Borders: The First New York Kurdish Film Festival For a complete schedule of screenings and events, see www.arteeast.org Kurdish cinema speaks strongly to our times because it confronts the pain and promise of crossing borders: not only the borders that separate nations, but the lines that define gender, community, and culture, that demarcate the past and the future, and adjudicate between those with and those without hope. Yet despite being one of the great film cultures of the world, Kurdish cinema still remains largely unknown in the U.S. The First New York Kurdish Film Festival: A Cinema Across Borders will showcase an exciting range of recent feature films, shorts, and documentaries by male and female directors from across the Kurdish region—including films from Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia—and the Kurdish diaspora. What unites these diverse films is a powerful commitment to innovative storytelling and a concern to rethink imposed borders of whatever kind. The festival will bring a number of Kurdish film directors to the U.S. to connect directly with New York audiences, and will provide a unique educational opportunity for learning about Kurdish history and culture. The festival aims to enrich the diversity and cultural life of the city by opening up new routes for understanding and dialogue between different cultures and visions of the world. Presented by the Kevorkian Center and ArteEast. Co-sponsored by the Center for Religion and Media. LECTURE Thursday/ October 22/ 6:00 pm All these dots are making me dizzy: An Indigenous Perspective on the Australian Western Desert Dot Painting Movement Franchesca Cubillo (Larrakia), Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, National Gallery of Australia, offers an Indigenous perspective on the acrylic painting movement. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery. SCREENING/ DISCUSSION Objects and Memory (62 minutes, 2008) Filmmaker Jon Fein in conversation with Jack Tchen talking about objects, archives, authenticity, memorialization and collecting living histories. Presented by the Asian Pacific American Institute. Co-sponsored by The Center for Media, Culture & History. LECTURE Thursday/ November 5/ 6:00- 7:30PM Roger Benjamin (Research Professor in Art History and Actus Foundation Lecturer in Aboriginal Art, University of Sydney) Landscapes of Longing: Place and Image in the Early Papunya Boards A guest curator of the exhibition,Benjaminexplores how western art history grasps the role of memory, song, and design in these works. FILM FESTIVAL The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival Information: www.amnh.org/programs/mead/
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| background images: Processional Projections Melissa Shiff (2003), Another Road Home Danae Elon (2004), Waiting for Miracles Ulla Dalum Berg (2003), Brian Larkin (1995). | ||