[spectre] Next week: lecture and performance with artist Morehshin Allahyari

[Washington Project for the Arts]

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On Monstrosity and Re-figuration: a lecture and performance
by Morehshin Allahyari
Thursday, February 27 from 8-9:30pm
Image: Morehshin Allahyari, She Who Sees The Unknown: The Laughing Snake, still 
image from Net Art piece, co-commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, Whitney Museum 
of American Art, and FACT, 2018
We are honored to welcome Tehran-born, Brooklyn-based artist Morehshin Allahyari
 to DC for a lecture and performance in conjunction with the exhibition, She Who
 Sees The Unknown: Aisha Qandisha--a projected digital animation curated by Jonathan
Monaghan. Allahyari will talk about her long-term research-based project, She Who
Sees The Unknown, and concepts such as monstrosity, re-figuring, colonialism, and
Jinn channeling. Throughout the lecture, she will use the ancient stories of monstrous
female and queer Middle-Eastern figures as her point of departure.
She will end the lecture with a participatory performance in which the audience 
will guide her in revealing a personal story on female desire, hysteria, and sexual
harassment.
Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, writer, and educator. She was born and
raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Morehshin has participated
in numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops around the world, these include
the Venice Biennale di Archittectura, New Museum, The Whitney Museum of American
 Art, Pompidou Center, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Tate Modern, Queens
Museum, Pori Museum, Powerhouse Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Museum für Angewandte
Kunst. She has been an artist-in-residence at BANFF Centre (2013), Carnegie Mellon
University's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (2015), Autodesk Pier9 Workshop in San 
Francisco (2015), the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research in association
with Transmediale, Berlin (2016), Eyebeam's one year Research Residency (2016-2017)
in NYC, Pioneer Works (2018), and Harvest Works (2018). Her work has been featured
in The New York Times, BBC, Huffington Post, Wired, National Public Radio, Parkett
Art Magazine, Frieze, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, and Al Jazeera, among others. Her 
3D Additivist Manifesto video is in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, and recently she has been awarded major commissions by Rhizome, New Museum,
 Whitney Museum of American Art, Liverpool Biennale, and FACT to work on developing
different components of her current project She Who Sees The Unknown.
More info about this program here [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0019_3eiY9LhgY6_HPvGfkEwtVsEhM5z6x4ciWqTHYTJOIrm1YkF0ssAKsRrEawfJPU-hgPL42aSn-AZ0PYwouaZ-0LO5_3ukGYhNyEacRhLesf2dj8g76zqjbQiZeN-M6trOpssPaqDwmrkv1GTYvcdVR1sfCguxErgBw1abfqeFL5D1XYm7MoQ-W-udICmLgLniSY1GcdfuUnXLxPVDGLCL2_O9Egn7EknumdtrR6JI8SYWadc2jX5ZnW-4kL5-zaZAc4yHqS-smE0dPtdctZ1a6BOzUaB1fGDct7SteBacdao-xWGCyTOisJZQoNDuCi-y602c_UU_FlEiURfedC-xIYzF6QaSoWMwWgXOuwQoQwsuh3gxFB6mObX-RlDMZ4hwHHcbcJPL4=&c=nyR2XiUZElW0ahNHuBtu1mUnakwY-q69Tt_37ZrmMbN1G9VhJ0X6uQ==&ch=uQsLKIxmO-8noPEuLdybvIG-YVXbm_k_22ALK81ov-emBW3xjGrpAQ==]
About this Project
In She Who Sees The Unknown, Allahyari uses 3D modeling, 3D scanning, 3D printing,
and storytelling to re-create monstrous female/queer figures of Middle Eastern origin.
She mines the traditions and myths associated with these supernatural creatures 
to explore the catastrophes of colonialism, patriarchy, and environmental degradation
in relation to the Middle East, "re-figuring" the past to activate and preserve 
what may have been forgotten or misrepresented. This project is curated by DC digital
artist Jonathan Monaghan, furthering his practice and providing DC with the opportunity
to engage with the ideas that Allahyari brings forth.
Gallery hours are Wed-Sat, 2-7pm through March 28
Read more about this project here [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0019_3eiY9LhgY6_HPvGfkEwtVsEhM5z6x4ciWqTHYTJOIrm1YkF0ssAPoKr3ub39SFQVm6Vle40yPuYLwZFOgNDIOUs9NzIWsoenWhVY7_nFrBysR8LVWdAe7OlprZi_OyCHEPyPrT1PZrfRzufyd6mOniQcY-MIcY7_IDgNP9H2iXnpJws3gQ7GL-2b8vrggLXi_CIT8nRoTPqsXD91HXMfbMPHoGlFtBtH2lGfykWJHvFu9no21_Og69zDH5Wcj7W1LOCpyIyOOLucaydtySSI-QIw5eey3HItTB0TUlW9bRKM067a1T84jq9ji8huWOiKeM-NBq0oRhrSIqWE7rghMFAal1IBhs&c=nyR2XiUZElW0ahNHuBtu1mUnakwY-q69Tt_37ZrmMbN1G9VhJ0X6uQ==&ch=uQsLKIxmO-8noPEuLdybvIG-YVXbm_k_22ALK81ov-emBW3xjGrpAQ==]
Read more about our artist-driven program model here [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0019_3eiY9LhgY6_HPvGfkEwtVsEhM5z6x4ciWqTHYTJOIrm1YkF0ssAPoKr3ub39SFq8IX7UNzMcWFJl8JI4C8zk2kLhdbVFviuOJC1l-LB48Zey1IvfH61rmjJXzYbEL-M69SOd1-G4htLitcCJtJSgE7Pagd1TSeJ5rBlLc87GeJ4N7HNJXaIsoOACIquvzgOjzite4tP6TnsHTR3bilZn9DBI82_IPU8WGn34c6JkTvFJ-s7dKhu8Gf2zDm8Ps412sn1LyTXxjvkABaHF6Ws8cztIAfaqCoB2fnhX-UVzI=&c=nyR2XiUZElW0ahNHuBtu1mUnakwY-q69Tt_37ZrmMbN1G9VhJ0X6uQ==&ch=uQsLKIxmO-8noPEuLdybvIG-YVXbm_k_22ALK81ov-emBW3xjGrpAQ==]
Supporters
This and other WPA projects are made possible by the DC Commission on the Arts and
Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts; The
 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Bloomberg Philanthropies; The Morris
& Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Hickok Cole Architects; White&Case; and many other
generous foundations, corporations, and individuals.
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In other news
WPA Director Peter Nesbett and performance artist Sheldon Scott discuss art and 
activism this Saturday, February 22 from 12-1pm ET-US on Networked Conversations,
broadcast live via the Third Space Network. Please join them on Crowdcast, a third
space online platform for creative dialogue.
Save your spot here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/networked-conversations-2-22-20 
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