Return to the Land
of Wonders
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Not long after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi returns to her home city of Baghdad after 35 years. She accompanies her father, 80-year-old Adnan Pachachi, who is returning to head the committee responsible for drafting Iraq’s temporary constitution and Bill of Rights of Baghdad after 35 years. Moving between the political sphere and the everyday life on the streets, the film not only follows the process with its arguments over wording changes demanded by US leaders in Washington and compromises made to satisfy Iraqi sectarian interests, but also offers a glimpse into the everyday resilience of Iraqis. A Q&A with Maysoon Pachachi will follow the screening.
After
Effects
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 Berlin Remake, Amie Siegel, video installation, 2005 |
After Effects frames what comes after Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s residency program in the World Trade Center. How has the new security environment left an imprint on the city and its inhabitants? And how have international artists brought global perspective to war and terror? LMCC artists offer critical insight into the recovery process as it continues today.
NY Times Performance: Based on images collected from the New York Times of people grieving, Pia Lindman leads a one-hour performance tour of selected monuments in Battery Park.Artists: Peggy Diggs, Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh, Pia Lindman, Conor McGrady, Amie Siegel.
Curated by Erin Donnelly, Residency Director, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
A Knock
at the Door…
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“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.” Where is the line between art and “un- American” activity? When is it art? And when is it dangerous?
Artists: Carlos Andrade & Todd Ayoung; Doug Ashford; Autonomedia; Al Brandtner; Lisa Charde; Keith Christensen; Jim Costanzo; Critical Art Ensemble; Daedalus; Kouross Esmaeli; Nicolas Dumit Estevez; Benj Gerdes; Day Gleeson; Grace Graupe-Pillard; Anthony Graves; Gregory Green; Group Material Archive; Hackett; Kathy High; Hiroyuki; Christina Nguyen Hung; Jason Lahr; Lou Laurita; John Leanos; James Leary; Ligorano/Reese; Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry; James Mead; Saul Melman & Ani Weinstein; Arnold Mesches; Neistat Brothers; Barbara Nitke; Jenny Polak; Preemptive Media (Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Schulte and Brooke Singer); Walid Raad; Red76; Duke Riley; Miguelangel Ruiz; Christy Rupp; Tom Sachs; Jayce Salloum; Julia Scher; Dread Scott; Gregory Sholette; Shelly Silver; Camilla Storm; Surveillance Camera Players; Ken Tam; Miyuki Tsushima; Ultra Violet; U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force; VISIBLE Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen; Paulina Von Ahlstrom; Naomi White; Christopher Wool.
Curated by Seth Cameron, Creative Director, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Greetings Without
Flowers
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Life-size portraits of Iraqis greet us as they take a moment from their daily lives to look into the camera of Kouross Esmaeli. Shot in the streets, mosques and markets of Baghdad, Karbala and Kazemayn in November and December of 2003, these photographs confront New Yorkers as part of their everyday.Iranian-born filmmaker and photographer Esmaeli currently divides his time between New York and Boston, where he teaches video, photography and film studies at the New England Institute of Art. A project of Alwan for the Arts partially funded by the Gunk Foundation.
book
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For 36 weeks, a sketchbook traveled silently between four artists: Oliver Jeffers and Rory Jeffers in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Mac Premo and Duke Riley in Brooklyn, New York. Each week, a new spread crossed the Atlantic, carrying on a conversation across the inherent gap between intention and interpretation. At the end of the exchange, book had traveled over sixty thousand miles.
Homeland Security
Garden
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Created by Korean born artist Chang-Jin Lee over the past 2 years, Homeland Security Garden transforms the Winter Garden into a participatory sculpture that reveals our notions of safety and freedom. From objects, intimate and practical, that people considered essential to survive a crisis, Lee constructs “safety kits” which are displayed on Astroturf covered pedestals arranged to evoke a 19th century horticultural maze or garden. Presented by World Financial Center Arts and Events.
Chat the Planet
September 9-11, 10am – 4pm
Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St.
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Chat the Planet is a television show and
internet community that connects groups of young Americans (ages 17 to
23) with their peers around
the world, for frank, no-holds-barred discussions about politics, relationships,
prejudices, and life in general. As part of the summit, Chat the Planet
will connect young people in NYC with others around the world in real
time conversation. For more information visit www.chattheplanet.com.
Focus Sphere,
2005
September 9-11
Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., Theater 1, lower lobby
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A meditation object etched with words meant to evoke both inner and world peace, Focus Sphere is a new project by Nancy Burson. As part of her Focus on Peace project in 2002, thousands of postcards and posters were distributed around the site of the World Trade Center to coincide with the first anniversary of 9/11.