Terminality as Performance

Over the last eight months, the lines separating private from public domains of grief, protest from mourning, dying from being killed, the dead from the living, the fleshly from the pixellated, have been blurred. Through sound, theory, image, and affect, Farman and his collaborators explore some practices of daily resurrection and critical mourning.

Abou Farman is an anthropologist, writer and artist. He is the author of On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience (2020, University of Minnesota Press) and Clerks of the Passage (2012, Linda Leith Press). He is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research and founder of Art Space Sanctuary as well as the Shipibo Conibo Center of New York.

Leonor Caraballo worked as a photographer and video artist between Buenos Aires and New York. She is the co-director of the feature film Icaros: a vision. She has won a number of fellowships and grants, including the Latin American Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and an Eyebeam Art and Technology Center residency. Leonor left her body on Saturday January 24th, 2015.
Leo and Abou conspire together as artists.

Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who creates immersive works, sound performances, and audience participatory workshops. She has participated in numerous artist residencies, including Headlands Center for the Arts (2021) and Mass MoCA (2021). Her work has been exhibited and screened at ARoS Art Museum, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Minnesota Street Projects, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. She is a lecturer in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.

Hossein Sharang is the founder and president of the Wild Republic of Sharangestan.

February 24, 2021 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (PST)

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