CMP will host the Spring CMP Critique with guest critique Walid Raad on April 12. CMP students will gather for a critique to which CMP students, faculty, guest artists, filmmakers, and curators are invited.
Walid Raad is an artist whose works include photography, video, mixed media installations, and performances. His works include the creation of The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, as well as the ongoing projects Scratching on Things I Could Disavow and Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut). His books include Walkthrough, The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, and Let’s Be Honest The Weather Helped.
Raad’s solo exhibitions have been featured at institutions including the Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza (Madrid), Louvre (Paris), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden), ICA (Boston, USA), Museo Jumex (Mexico City, Mexico), Kunsthalle Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland), The Whitechapel Art Gallery (London, UK), Festival d’Automne (Paris, France), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, Belgium), The Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, Germany).
Critique Schedule:
9:00am Doors open / coffee, Sever 416
9:30am Julia Sharpe, Sever 416
10:20am Parker Hatley, Sever 416
11:10am Kristen Zipperer, Sever 416
12:00pm Ana Laura Malmaceda, Sever 416 (via Zoom)
1:00pm Lunch – please RSVP to Cozette (Lunch is Full)
2:15pm Beatrice Steinert, CCVA B04
3:00pm Noha Mokhtar, CCVA B04
3:45pm Lilia Kilburn, CCVA B04
4:30pm Soumya Ghosh, CCVA 401
5:30pm Parker Hatley book presentation and reception, Peter Warshall: Squirrels on Earth and Stars Above, CCVA B04 – a project which emerged from the CMP Publications course in collaboration with Noha Mokhtar and Gregor Huber.