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21/10/2015

Abounaddara

Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York

Image production is dependent on a fragile balance of celebrating freedom of expression and freedom of information while protecting the right to the image for everyone involved. The media's methods for disseminating reoccurring images depicting bodies brutalized by war often work in direct opposition to this central goal. This exhibition and accompanying conference celebrate the work of Syrian filmmaker collective Abounaddara and its crucial contribution to transforming the dominant international media discourse on warfare, violence and migration.

Since the onset of the Syrian revolution, the anonymous collective Abounaddara has engaged in this international debate using filmmaking tactics, releasing one short "bullet film" into the global discourse via social media every Friday. Abounaddara's films actively work to restore a dignified image and voice to the Syrian people and aim to build new platforms for civil society to meet, regardless of national borders. Key to their artistic project is the specific political demand for an expansion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—to amend it with the right to a dignified image.

Abounaddara are the second recipients of The New School's biennial Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics. They were selected by an international jury, chaired by Helen Molesworth, with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Carin Kuoni, Tony Kushner, Lydia Matthews, and Doris Salcedo.

Exhibition
October 22–November 11
The exhibition consists of three carefully calibrated film installations with large projections, changing each week, which together feature 60 films. Each installation culls a particular selection from Abounaddara's substantial body of over 200 works, highlighting the collective's deliberate choice of cinematographic languages for specific topics or concerns.

Exhibition curated by Carin Kuoni, Anne Marquez and Dork Zabunyan, in collaboration with Abounaddara.

Stop the Spectacle!
October 22–28
On Remixing Found Footage, Still Images and Sound in Times of Complex Realities

Look at Our Faces: Portraits of a Becoming Revolution
October 29–November 4
On Portraiture and How People's Own Voices and Images Complicate Fragmented Understandings of Syria

See and Wait
November 5–11
On the Suspension of Narratives to Create Spaces for Engagement and Interpretation

Conference
October 22–24
Each conference panel is anchored by one aspect of Abounaddara's practice and examines its relevance through diverse contexts to see how it is enacted in other global socio-political situations and to build an analysis of methods to be implemented worldwide.

Among the participants are Peggy Ahwesh, Kader Attia, Moustafa Bayoumi, Emanuele Castano, TL Cowan, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Ruba Katrib, Peter Lucas, Christiane Paul, Jasmine Rault, Lea Shaver, David Levi Strauss, Aleksandra Wagner, Mac Kenzie Wark, and Lisa Weeden.
Curated by Carin Kuoni and Johanna Taylor.

Full conference schedule and detailed program http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/events/1977/abounaddara-the-right-to-the-image/

Opening: October 22, 5–6:30pm
Conference: October 22–24

Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Parsons School of Design 66 Fifth Avenue New York City
Hours: Friday–Wednesday noon–6pm, Thursday noon–8pm
Free admission

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