Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, The Incidental Insurgents, video, 2012. Photo courtesy of the artists and Carroll/Fletcher Gallery
- Friday, November 1, 2019
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
Nasrin Himada will examine new paradigms for art discourse: the limits of language in articulating the personal, experiential and embodied forms of knowledge. This lecture will explore the ways in which art can be a catalyst in constituting a radical, intimate and poetic ecology that extends beyond the work. Instead of talking or writing about artwork as a way to analyze, explain or interpret the object in question, art criticism can engage with art as a relation, rather than as representation; to be with the artwork and to write and talk to it, not about it. Himada will introduce modes of expression, such as daydreams, memories and love, that bring into articulation the complexity of art. They will draw upon The Incidental Insurgents, a three-part video series by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, as a focus of discussion.
Free, everyone welcome!
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Nasrin Himada is a Palestinian writer and curator. They are interested in articulating personal, experiential and embodied forms of knowledge, and exploring the ways in which art can be a catalyst in constituting a radical, intimate and poetic ecology that enacts transformation. Instead of talking or writing about artwork as a way to analyze, explain or interpret, art criticism and curation can engage with art as relation rather than representation. Their writing on contemporary art has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, Critical Signals, The Funambulist, Fuse and MICE, among others. They have collaborated with film festivals and art institutions across Canada and the US, among them the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, and Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery. Himada is the Curator at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg.
Photo by Pascha Marrow