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A Conversation with Asad Raza: An ECO-ARTs Virtual Event
September 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
RSVP below and join the Ecological Design Collective for a conversation with artist Asad Raza on his life and artistic career with a special focus on his upcoming project for Manifesta 15 Barcelona (opening the 8th of September to the 24th of November 2024). Manifesta is a “European Nomadic Biennial” which moves from city to city promoting positive social and ecological change. This year’s themes include: Balancing Conflicts, Cure and Care and Imagining Futures.
This event will take place virtually on the EDC platform on Thursday, September 12th starting at 12pm.
Asad Raza creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active encounter within and beyond the exhibition setting. Raza’s practice often takes planetary ecologies as a focus, with a strong emphasis on the participatory and the performative aspects of art, as well as an engagement with all of the senses. His projects have been realized by institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Serpentine Galleries, London; Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt; Ruhrtriennale, Essen; the Lahore Biennale; Museion, Bolzano; and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
Moderator : Dr. Kristine Roome PhD., cultural anthropologist & host of the Eco-Arts forum
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Amazing conversation, thanks so much to @kroome and Asad. The questions and provocations were so rich to think with. And I loved what he had to say about the hanging fabrics in that Barcelona power station moving in a wind like kelp, the way that water and soil can remake the interiors of a museum space, the enchantment of a grove that would begin in a museum space but take roots beyond it, an outdoor installation that would amplify the sound of the river nearby rather than compete with it, the sublime powers and attractions of natural forces beyond the human.