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fORUM: Sebastian De Line, Michelle Jacques, Yaniya Lee, and Jocelyn Piirainen
9 February 2022 2pmfORUM: Nasrin Himada invites Sebastian De Line, Michelle Jacques, Yaniya Lee, and Jocelyn Piirainen to speak in conversation. This program is the final event in a series organized by Himada that extend on the themes of Onyeka Igwe’s exhibition, THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM. In this final program of let it matter […]
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fORUM: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Onyeka Igwe, Gelare Khoshgozaran, and Aliya Pabani
19 January 2022 2pmfORUM: Nasrin Himada invites Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Onyeka Igwe, Gelare Khoshgozaran, and Aliya Pabani to speak in conversation. to go to the site of the wreck is borrowed from Basel Abbas’ and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s description of their project, And yet my mask is powerful (2016), which references a poem by Adrienne Rich entitled “Diving Into the […]
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fORUM: Nadia Kurd, Anique Jordan, and Paul Seesequasis
13 January 2022 7pmfORUM: Nasrin Himada invites Nadia Kurd, Anique Jordan, and Paul Seesequasis to speak in conversation. Inspired by Anique Jordan’s art practice and curatorial vision, moved by Paul Seesequasis’s Indigenous Photo Archival Project, and excited by Nadia Kurd’s curatorial ethos on how to be with collections and archives, this program is guided by the question of […]
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Video Walkthrough: THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM
16 December 2021 12amOnyeka Igwe gives a virtual tour of her solo exhibition, THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM. Speaking to her research into the power and politics of colonial film archives, and the architectural spaces that house them, Igwe gives us a glimpse into her commissioned film, a so-called archive (2020). 2021–22 […]
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Onyeka Igwe In Conversation with Nasrin Himada and Milka Njoroge
15 October 2021 12pmEvent starts at 12:30PM EST Onyeka Igwe speaks in conversation with Nasrin Himada and Milka Njoroge. This event contextualizes key themes running through Igwe’s work and the artist’s forthcoming solo exhibition at Mercer Union: THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM, which includes the new film a so-called archive (2020). In a double portrait […]
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Artist Afternoons
15 September 2021 6pm - 6 October 2021 7pmPlease join us for Artist Afternoons at Mercer Union on September 15, 22, 29, and October 6 from 6 – 7 PM. Through the end of our current exhibition, we invite artists and our community to come and meet one another at Mercer Union’s patio after hours on Wednesdays. Hang out and reconnect with friends […]
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SESSION: Amy Lam
15 June 2021 7pmThe Four Onions launch and reading “These poems started with food. I was writing down what I talked about most, and I talked a lot about the things I eat and don’t eat. For example, beef jerky vs. eggs. I realize now that food was the beginning because 1) my parents ran a café/diner during […]
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fORUM: Sarah Rifky with Courtney Lesoon, Radek Przedpełski, and Laura U. Marks
25 May 2021 1pmREGISTER TO ATTEND Imagine what the General’s wife would say! Careful Studies and Rogue Constructions of the Kėdainiai Minaret Storytelling and history spring from the same origin, yet their alliance is sometimes troubled. In the exhibition A Minaret for the General’s Wife, by Turkish-Canadian artist Erdem Taşdelen at Mercer Union, the Kėdainiai minaret is a […]
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SESSION: ma ma invite Claire Bishop
12 April 2021 6pmma ma | in residence invite art historian Claire Bishop to discuss her writings A Speculative Review of #NewMoMA and MoMA Tour 2064, and reflect on speculation as a way of imagining ethical institutional practices. Her talk will be followed by a discussion with the audience moderated by ma ma. Admission to this online event […]
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SESSION: ma ma invite Chaédria LaBouvier
17 May 2021 6pmma ma | in residence invite curator, art historian, writer and organizer Chaédria LaBouvier to contribute a triptych work: a short, written introduction, clips of an unfinished film project, and a talk. All works will focus on interrogating what’s been called an art-world reckoning, and the cost and site of this foundation. Admission to this […]
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SESSION: ma ma
28 June 2021 6pmAs part of their program ma ma | in residence, Heather Rigg and Magdalyn Asimakis lead a workshop on speculative writing. This program will encourage participants to imagine the future of arts institutions through new forms of writing and critique. This will be a collective exercise for writers at all levels. Admission to this online […]
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“What Viruses Know About Politics?” | Filipa Ramos
26 January 2021 5pm - 7pmREGISTER TO ATTEND In 2014, social theorist Brian Massumi authored What Animals Teach Us About Politics?, “an extended thought experiment in what an animal politics can be”. Seven years later, humanity’s belonging to the natural realm has never been so asserted, as human-induced climate change renders the entanglement of causes and consequences even more visible and […]
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SESSION/relay: Alize Zorlutuna
14 February 2021 12pmHow to write for an imagined place The word “place” can refer to a myriad of locales, both physical and psychic. Place is real earth beneath our feet as well as imagined: a relic of memory in the privacy of our thoughts; an historic construction; a fantasy of elsewhere; a felt sense; a longing. Place is a gathering of stories, mythologies, and hauntings. It can be […]
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Video Walkthrough: A Minaret for the General’s Wife
12 January 2021 12amErdem Taşdelen gives a virtual tour of his ongoing solo exhibition, A Minaret for the General’s Wife, speaking to the histories, myths and speculations that drew him to the Kėdainiai Minaret and how exhibition-making within the pandemic environment pushed the artist to creatively rethink ideas of presence without live bodies. While A Minaret for the […]