Maine College of Art

CONVERSATION: The Stranger and the Spiritual
2018-11-07 21:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
A discussion with a Rabbi and an Imam about their faiths, and about what different scriptures say with regard to how we care for those we don't know. Following the 7:30pm performance of Refuge *Malja* ملج at Portland Stage.

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PANEL: Immigrant Advocacy in Maine
2018-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Join us for a panel discussion about Immigrant Advocacy in Maine, hosted by Portland Press Herald reporter, John Richardson. Panelists will talk about advocacy and programs to support Maine immigrants.
Panelists include:
Juliet Brown from the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP),
Hannah DeAngelis, Director of Refugee Resettlement at Catholic Charities
Dinah Minot, Director of the Creative Portland, City of Portland
TBA
Find more information at Portland Public Library.

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Meredith Host: Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-11-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Meredith Host: Windgate Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday November 8, 2018. 12–1pm
Porteous Building, Osher Hall, second floor

Meredith Host was born and raised in Detroit Rock City and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute in 2001. Meredith has spent time at numerous ceramic residencies including The School for American Crafts at RIT in Rochester, NY, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, and Dresdner Porzellan Manufactory in Dresden, Germany. At Watershed, Meredith was the 2005 Salad Days Artist where she designed and produced 500 salad plates for their annual fundraiser. In 2008, she completed her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from The Ohio State University . In 2011, Meredith was named one of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Emerging Artists as well as one of the Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists. Meredith lives in Kansas City, MO where she is a full time studio potter. She is a core member of the Kansas City Urban Potters.
Funded through the generous support of the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

Header Photography: Jason Bradbury; courtesy of the artist

FILM: There is My Home
2018-11-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Room 108, USM, Lewiston Campus, 51 Westminster St, Lewiston, ME, 04240, United States
The University of Southern Maine Food Studies Program presents There is My Home on November 8, 2019 at 4pm in room 108 of USM's Lewiston campus.
This 30-minute documentary features Hawa Ibrahim and Batula Ismail, two women trying to support their families as farmers in Maine. Born and raised in the Jubba River Valley of Somalia, both learned to farm at a young age from their parents. When civil war broke out in 1991, their villages were repeatedly raided for food. Thousands of friends, family and fellow villagers were brutally killed. Hawa and Batula fled and eventually reached safety in refugee camps in Kenya. In 2004, they were resettled in Dallas and Baltimore respectively. But they struggled to adapt to city life. In 2004 they learned of a place called Lewiston, Maine — a small northern city close to farmland. That's where this story begins.

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MUSIC + POETRY: Culture and Displacement | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
2018-11-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Musicians from Palaver Strings will collaborate with Portland based Iraqi immigrants Kifah Abdulla and Jawad Al-Fatlawi to showcase the experiences of Iraqi immigrants in Maine through spoken word and music. Kifah Abdulla, a poet and artist will share his personal narrative through spoken word while Jawad Al-Fatlawi, a oud player, composer, and oud maker, will present his story through his instrument. Palaver musicians will support the two musicians through new arrangements of Iraqi songs and through improvisational accompaniment to the verbal story. They will be joined by poets and writers Reza Jalali and Ekhlas Ahmed who will read from their work.
As a musician-led ensemble, Palaver is driven by collaborative processes, through which its Co-Artistic Directors share musical and administrative leadership. While each member of the ensemble brings unique experiences to the table, they share a passion for taking classical music beyond the concert hall to engage with new and diverse audiences. In these personal, unconventional settings, Palaver strives to use music to address social issues, promote education and healing, and inspire peers and community to support the arts.
This event will be hosted in the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D.

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Traces | MUSIC + POETRY: Culture + Displacement | @ MECA&D
2018-11-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

FILM: Human Flow by Ai Weiwei
2018-11-08 19:00 - 21:30 | Olin Arts Center, Bates College, 75 Russell St., Lewiston, ME, 04240, United States
Human Flow is director and artist Ai Weiwei's detailed and heartbreaking exploration into the global refugee crisis.
More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.
Hosted by the Bates College Museum of Art.

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LECTURE: Understanding Violence in Central Africa, Laura Seay
2018-11-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Chace Community Forum, 178 Main St, Waterville, ME, 04901, United States
Understanding Violence in Central Africa
From Laura Seay:
"I am an assistant professor of Government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. My research is centered around the study of community responses to conflict and U.S. foreign policy in Africa’s Great Lakes region. I am currently finishing a book, Substituting for the State, about the role non-state actors play in governing the eastern DRC in response to the Congolese state’s weakness in North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri. I am also engaged in a new project on the effects of U.S. legislation designed to mitigate conflict in central Africa and in 2014, I am leading an impact evaluation of a large community-based reconstruction (CBD) governance intervention in four Congolese provinces.
My research and teaching interests include qualitative and mixed methods, African politics and development, and post-conflict state reconstruction. I have also worked with the World Bank in Nigeria on efforts to improve the national primary health care system through evaluating the implementation of a results-based finance system, with particular attention to reducing instances of maternal, infant, and child mortality by removing demand-side barriers to system access.
At Colby, I teach African politics, conflict, and research methods. I blog about African politics, development, and security at Texas in Africa and am a contributor to the Duck of Minerva, the Christian Science Monitor’s Africa Monitor blog, and The Atlantic.com."
Find out more about this event on the Mid-Maine Global Forum website.

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FILM: Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar | Maine College of Art & Design
2018-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
The checkpoint is closed: “Detour, detour!” shouts a taxi driver, announcing the beginning of yet another uncertain search for a way around the barriers curtailing Palestinian movement in the West Bank.
Infiltrators is a visceral “road movie” that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers.
Following this high stakes “game” of cat and mouse with a handheld video camera, Khaled Jarrarʼs debut documentary was the standout success at the 2012 Dubai International Film Festival, winning the Muhr Arab Documentary Prize, the Special Jury Prize, and the International Critics Prize.
Maine College of Art & Design MFA'19 candidate Inass Yassin will introduce the film, and lead a short discussion after the screening.
This event will take place in MECA&D's Osher Hall.

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Traces | FILM: Infiltrators by Khaled Jarrar | @ MECA&D
2018-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

Empower the Immigrant Woman Conference
2018-11-10 09:00 - 20:00 | USM Wishcamper Center, 34 Bedford St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
With a mission to “Empower, Educate & Inspire the Immigrant Woman”, EIW works to motivate Maine’s immigrant women to, with the League of Women Voters, highlight voting engagement issues specific to their mission, raise awareness of their challenges, and honor their community “Trailblazers”. The all-day conference will kick off at 9am with a Forum whose goal will be to educate the newest Americans on the programs and services available to address education, social and challenges faced. Join us at 6pm as we recognize trailblazer women who are serving and changing Maine communities with their work in specific immigrant communities in Maine, across America, and abroad.
Morning events at USM Wishcamper Center
9am - 1pm - Conference Program Flow
11:30 - 1pm Resource Fair Display & Networking with Service Providers
***PLEASE NOTE AFTERNOON CHANGE OF VENUE TO CONGREGATIOM BET HA'AM (81 Westbrook St, South Portland, ME 04106)***
5:30pm Pre-event Reception
6:30pm· Evening Trailblazer Celebration

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November Open House: BFA Admissions
2018-11-10 10:30 - 15:00 | Porteous Building, Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Visit MECA&D for an Open House!
Come see first-hand why students are choosing to study in MECA&D's close-knit community and rigorous artistic programs. At an Open House, you'll have a chance to:

Get to know faculty and current students
Take a tour of our studios and res halls
Have your portfolio reviewed with professional artists
Explore the vibrant art scene in downtown Portland, Maine

This Open House is specifically designed for students interested in our BFA program — we'll send you more information upon registration.
Sign up below!
If you have any questions about our Open Houses, you can contact us at admissions@meca.edu or 207.699.5026.

BOOKS: I'm Your Neighbor at the Harlow Gallery
2018-11-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Harlow Gallery, 100 Water Street, Hallowell, ME, 04347, United States
Welcoming Immigrants with Literature
As part of the Maine Migrations statewide celebration, we are honoring the contribution that children’s literature plays in the larger immigration conversation. Author and illustrator Anne Sibley O’Brien will share her new picture book SOMEONE NEW, the companion to her award-winning I’M NEW HERE. In her interconnected books, "new arrival" students and "long term” students explore belonging and friendship. Anne will be joined by Kirsten Cappy of I’m Your Neighbor Books who will share other books set in immigrant communities. Additionally they will demonstrate how Maine has taken the lead nationally on using children’s books to welcome immigrants with the creation of the Welcoming Library. Audience members will have the opportunity to purchase immigration titles to benefit of local schools and the Welcoming Library will be available to view until 11/29/18.

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WORKSHOP: Multi-generational Art Workshop with Pamela Moulton & Titi de Baccarat
2018-11-10 11:00 - 15:00 | Meeting Room 1, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Join teaching artists Pamela Moulton and Titi de Baccarat for a multi-generational art workshop on Saturday, November 10 between 11:00am and 3:00pm. The artists will work with Adults, Children and Teens to create imaginary, surreal, multi-cultural houses to be suspended on an interactive papermache tree which will be kept on display at Portland Public Library and/or bring their creations home.
Pamela Moulton, currently resides in Maine after spending 23 years in France. A Pennsylvania-born, Franco-American artist, Pamela is sculptor and installation artist. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont and Villa Arson, France. Pamela worked in New York as a set designer and art director while continuing to exhibit abroad as a fine artist. Motherhood brought her to Europe where she received her MFA from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’ Aix and studied choreography and education at IUFM Blois.
Titi de Baccarat is an artist who possesses many facets at once painter, sculptor, jeweler, clothing designer, and writer. Dedicated to justice in a hostile political context, he was forced to flee his country, Gabon, with only the wealth of his artistic ability. He has lived in Portland since February 2015. He believes that Art rehabilitates love, bringing together people of all countries, of all backgrounds, of all cultures, and all ethnicities. His upcoming work as a Printers Without Margins fellow will describe his experiences as an immigrant in the United States: his pain, fear, uncertainty, and his hope for his future here. “Immigration is not a color, it is pain and hope.”
Find more information at Portland Public Library.

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MUSIC + POETRY: Arabic Culture Night | Cony High School
2018-11-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Cony High School, 60 Pierce Drive, Augusta, ME, United States
Arabic Culture Night
Featuring Music by Jawad Al-Fatlawi and Poetry by Kifah Abdullah.
This event is co- sponsored by the Capital Area New Mainers Project and Augusta English-Languae Learners Program at Cony High School.
Refreshments following the performance.

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CONVERSATION: Artist as Activist
2018-11-11 15:30 - 16:00 | Portland Stage, 25 Forest Ave., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
A post show discussion with the actors engaged in the creation of Refuge *Malja* ملجأ following the 2pm matinee at Portland Stage.

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THEATER: American Dreams | An original play by Linda Britt
2018-11-11 16:00 - 18:00 | First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St., Auburn, ME, 04210, United States
“American Dreams” is an original play by Linda Britt with monologues that focus on the immigrant experience in the U.S., an experience which varies widely depending on country of origin, race, religion, age, and location. The monologues allow the actors to tell the story of each immigrant character, and focus on the aspect of their immigration story that is most meaningful to them. There are 26 monologues total; the producing company may do as few as ten or as many more as they choose.
Sponsored by Museum L-A.

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CONVERSATION: Assimilation: What must we give—and give up—to be American?
2018-11-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Beth Israel Congregation, 291 Main St., Waterville, ME, 04903, United States
Part of the Community Conversations series, co-hosted by Beth Israel Congregation and the Center for Small Town Jewish Life. Entering its third year, Community Conversations aims to bring together college students with the local community to talk about issues of common concern. It brings top-notch speakers to Beth Israel Congregation for an hour-long educational program followed by an hour for attendees to have discussions about core questions facing the community.

The theme for the 2018-2019 academic year is "Home."

Community Conversations is funded in part through a generous grant from the Maine Humanities Council.

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LECTURE: Artist Talk | Sammy Baloji
2018-11-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Kresge Auditorium, Bowdoin College, 239 Maine St., Brunswick, ME, 04011, United States
Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi, in the mineral-rich Katanga province of Democratic Republic of Congo. He studied Computer and Information Sciences and Communication at the University of Lubumbashi. With a borrowed camera, he began photographing scenes as sources for his cartoons. He soon enrolled in photography courses in DRC, and continued with photography and video at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, in Strasbourg, France. Baloji juxtaposes photographic realities, combining past and present, the real and the ideal, to illicit glaring cultural and historical tensions. He explores architecture and the human body as traces of social history, sites of memory, and witnesses to operations of power.

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LECTURE: Beau-frog: Art and Franco American Activism (1970-1980)
2018-11-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Museum L-A, 35 Canal St., Lewiston, ME, 04240, United States
Susan Pinette, Director of Franco American Programs at the University of Maine, will give a free talk about the artwork on display and Peter Archambault's life in the Museum L-A gallery space. The history of Franco-American communities in the seventies and eighties has not yet been written. This talk aims to begin to fill this void by exploring drawings made by a Franco-American artist engaged in struggles to support and defend the rights of Franco-Americans.
Sponsored by Museum L-A.

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LECTURE: Artist Talk | Sammy Baloji
2018-11-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Diamond Building, Colby College, 4000 Mayflower Hill Dr., Waterville, ME, 04901, United States
Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi, in the mineral-rich Katanga province of Democratic Republic of Congo. He studied Computer and Information Sciences and Communication at the University of Lubumbashi. With a borrowed camera, he began photographing scenes as sources for his cartoons. He soon enrolled in photography courses in DRC, and continued with photography and video at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, in Strasbourg, France. Baloji juxtaposes photographic realities, combining past and present, the real and the ideal, to illicit glaring cultural and historical tensions. He explores architecture and the human body as traces of social history, sites of memory, and witnesses to operations of power.
Lecture in Ostrove Auditorium. Sponsored by the Oak Institute for Human Rights, the Center for Arts and Humanities, and the Colby College Museum of Art.

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FILM: BISBEE '17 | SPACE Gallery
2018-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04103, United States
BISBEE ’17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. For more information about the film, visit streamingmoviesright.com/us/movie/bisbee-17.
Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town’s darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New Mexican desert and left there to die. This long-buried and largely forgotten event came to be known as the Bisbee Deportation.
The film documents locals as they play characters and stage dramatic scenes from the controversial story, culminating in a large scale recreation of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and offer conflicting views of the event, underscoring the difficulty of collective memory, while confronting the current political predicaments of immigration, unionization, environmental damage and corporate corruption with direct, haunting messages about solidarity and struggle.

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Adam Fisher: Reddit Ask Me Anything
2018-11-15 10:00 - 13:00
Adam Fisher, Animation & Game Art Faculty
Thursday, November 15, 10am–1pm
Hi everyone! I'm Adam Fisher. I'm a stop-motion animator, filmmaker and, most recently, an educator. I've been lucky to work on some amazing projects over the years (Coraline, The Boxtrolls, Paranorman, Anomalisa, Tumble Leaf, Kubo and the Two Strings), and am very excited to join the Animation and Game Art faculty this year at Maine College of Art & Design! Prior to making the move home to Maine, I spent roughly 2 years animating on Laika's latest film, "Missing Link". Look for it this Spring! https://www.missinglink.movie/
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Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) is a great opportunity for an audience to ask questions about Adam Fisher's expertise in real time.
Look for the AMA here on November 15, 10am—1pm to join in! A more specific link will be promoted the day of.

PANEL: ACLU/ILAP on US Immigration Policy | hosted by Maine College of Art & Design
2018-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Panel Title: The “Know-Nothing” Movement Is Back: Examining Current U.S. Immigration Policy Through A Historical Lens
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine and the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project discuss what current anti-immigrant U.S. policy has in common with the Know Nothing movement from the nineteenth century.
This event will be hosted in the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA&D.

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Traces | PANEL: ACLU/ILAP on US Immigration Policy | @ MECA&D
2018-11-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States

POETRY: Reading & Performance | Kifah Abdullah, Emma Flores, & Devin Colella
2018-11-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Way, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Kifah Abdulla is a poet, artist, performer, and teacher. He reads poetry and short stories with music. Kifah published his first book of poetry” Dead Still Dream ” he is working on his memoir book ” Mountains Without Peaks ” and his second book of poetry. Kifah is a visual artist, his works has exhibited in different galleries and places in Maine, and he is involved in many cultural and artistic projects. He is a member of Portland Public Art Committee, founder of the International Arabic Language Festival in Portland ME, co-founder of Arabic conversation group and first Arabic language website. Kifah teaches Arabic calligraphy at MECCA, Arabic instructor at SMCC, and the Language Exchange.
Kifah is working on collaborative artists projects which include: a poet, cellist, soprano singer, and dancer, and is putting together a show for WMPG titled ” Words and Music” it will starts in Sept 30th.
abdulla.kifah@gmail.com|
www.kifahabdulla.com
www.arabiclanguage.me

Emma Flores is a voice student of Scott Wheatley and a senior at Kennebunk High School. She is a member of the Tri-M Music Honor Society, and she performed all three years at the District and All State Music Festival in the mixed choir. Emma is a member of Opera Maine’s Opera Teen group and was chosen by Opera America in New York to serve on the national Opera Teen Advisory Board as Manager of Social Media and has recently become Co-Chair of the program. Emma has attended Brevard Music Center’s Summer Institute in North Carolina and Boston University’s Tanglewood.

Devin Colella can be seen in his funk / rock cello and drums duo, QUAD, as well as with improvisational classical crossover piano trio, Aeterna Trio, and singer- songwriter Shanna Underwood. Devin is interested in exploring new ways to play the cello, and works to introduce the cello to new kinds of music. He hopes to contribute to the growing movement of cellists who are experimenting with modern music.
www.quadtheduo.com
Find more information at Portland Public Library.

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BOOKS: Welcoming Immigrants with Children's Literature
2018-11-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Print: A Bookstore, 273 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Print: A Bookstore is honoring the contribution that children’s literature plays in the larger immigration conversation. Author and illustrator Anne Sibley O’Brien will share her new picture book SOMEONE NEW, the companion to her award-winning I’M NEW HERE. In her interconnected books, new arrival students and "long term” students explore belonging and friendship. Anne will be joined by Kirsten Cappy of I’m Your Neighbor Books, who will share other books set in immigrant communities. Additionally they will demonstrate how Maine has taken the lead nationally on using children’s books to welcome immigrants with the creation of the Welcoming Library. Audience members will have the opportunity to purchase immigration titles for the benefit of Greater Portland schools.

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FILM: Through the Repellent Fence | SPACE Gallery
2018-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 | SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04103, United States
THROUGH THE REPELLENT FENCE follows art collective Postcommodity as they strive to construct Repellent Fence, a two-mile long outdoor artwork that straddled the U.S.-Mexico border. Postcommodity consists of three Native American artists who “put land art in a tribal context.” Aided by the communities on both sides of the border in 2015 the artists installed a series 28 huge inflatable spheres emblazoned with an insignia known as the “open eye” that has existed in Indigenous cultures from South America to Canada for thousands of years. The spheres were evenly spaced apart and extended north and south of the border a mile in each direction. “It’s a metaphorical suture stitching together cultures that have inhabited these lands long before borders were drawn.”
The film provides an intimate glimpse into the arduous process behind creating an ambitious artwork that will give voice to the shared history and enduring culture of Indigenous societies that have made the region their home for thousands of years before a border ever divided it. Interwoven with this thread are lush scenes using stunning cinematography to absorb viewers into striking land art environments that have preceded Post Commodity’s work. Scenes with other artists and intellectuals working in the land art realm provide context and insight as well. These include scenes with Chris Taylor of Texas Tech University’s Land Arts of the American West program, writer Lucy Lippard and Matt Coolidge of the Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Through The Repellent Fence is an adventure in the artistic process blended with a road trip of discovery visiting sites and diverse perspectives to explore how land art can generate community interaction and perceptual shifts in how we interpret, engage and draw inspiration from our natural world.
Followed by a live video chat with Postcommodity's Raven Chacon, led by Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways co-curator Julie Poitras Santos.

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LECTURE: Ranu Mukherjee | Maine College of Art & Design Visiting Artist
2018-11-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Maine College of Art & Design, 522 Congress Street, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways featured artist Ranu Mukherjee will talk about her practice and work in the exhibition at MECA&D's ICA. The talk will be hosted in MECA&D’s Osher Hall.

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Ranu Mukherjee: Visiting Artist Lecture
2018-11-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Osher Hall, Maine College of Art & Design, 2nd Floor, 522 Congress St., Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Ranu Mukherjee: Visiting Artist Lecture
Thursday, November 29, 2018; 6–7pm
Osher Hall, Porteous Second Floor
Free and open to the public
Ranu Mukherjee, Cracks, 2017, pigment and milk paint on paper on panel 75 x 51 inches (190.5 x 129.5 cm)
Ranu Mukherjee makes bodies of work and large scale installations by combining drawing, painting and print on fabric or paper alongside video, animation and choreography. Her work is marked by a deliberate use of saturated color, layering or collision of time frames,fragmentation and sensuality. Her art evokes questions of visibility, abstraction and the illusion of knowing, intensified by the algorithmic distribution of news images and information. In recent projects, she explores the present as a confluence of tension between colonial legacy and indigenous power, and ways that the colonized speak to the future. Her elemental treatment of landscape embodies the force of otherness; of the hybrid, the diasporic and the speculative.
“There is cultural time and there is material time. The body connects to both.” Shadowtime - Ranu Mukherjee
