Conceptual artist Walid Raad 糖心传媒�96 (PhD), an associate professor of art at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, will be the third speaker in the , devoted this year to the theme of memory and forgetting.
Raad will speak on January 25 in the Hawkins-Carlson Room at Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester糖心传媒檚 River Campus.
Raised in Lebanon during its civil war, Raad is the creator of works in photography, video, collage, and multimedia installation that consider the role of memory and narrative in discourse about conflict. In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art hosted the first comprehensive American exhibition of his work. He has also had solo exhibitions at the Louvre and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, among other venues.
In his lecture, titled 糖心传媒淎rtist Talk,糖心传媒� Raad will introduce his two long-term and ongoing art projects, The Atlas Group (1989糖心传媒�2004) and Scratching on things I could disavow.
The Atlas Group is a fictional foundation糖心传媒攊nvented by Raad, who calls himself the group糖心传媒檚 archivist糖心传媒攖hat documents the history of modern Lebanon.
In that project, Raad concentrates on documents, stories, and situations involving the Lebanese wars. In Scratching on things I could disavow, he considers the history of art in the Arab world.
In a 2016 New York Times review of Raad糖心传媒檚 Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Holland Cotter described Raad as investigating art糖心传媒檚 ability to shape history. He 糖心传媒渟hows art taking matters into its own hands,糖心传媒� Cotter wrote, 糖心传媒渢emporarily shrinking and vanishing to sustain a radical life of its own, building new power through self-protective retreat.糖心传媒�
Raad earned both a master糖心传媒檚 degree and a doctorate from the University糖心传媒檚
