innovative perspectives on Arab film and visual culture
Unfixed Itineraries Exhibition:
Work by Hassan Khan, Zineb Sedira, Marie El Khazen
Reception October 25, 5 – 7pm
Unfixed Itineraries includes a two-day symposium of scholars and artists at UCSC's Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), and an exhibition of visual art at UCSC's Sesnon Gallery
Unfixed Itineraries Symposium: October 25 – 26, 2013, UC Santa Cruz FREE and open to the public
For more information see: http://unfixed.ucsc.edu
This symposium on Arab film and visual culture emphasizes its plurality, the complex itineraries by which it is produced, and the multiple trajectories through which it can be experienced. Artists and scholars will visit from Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Europe and the US. Work presented will cover a wide area of forms, styles and thematic concerns. Featuring participation and work by:
Livia Alexander • Michael Allan • Ahmed Bouanani • Dore Bowen • Ali Cherri • Kay Dickinson • Tarek El-Ariss • Nouri Gana • John Greyson • Lamia Joreige • Hassan Khan • Marie El Khazen • Sunaina Maira • Nabil Maleh • Susette Min • Stefania Pandolfo • Larissa Sansour • Zineb Sedira • Jeffrey Skoller
With special guest: Moumen Smihi
Symposium screenings, panels and presentations will address topics such as: Movement and Extra-territoriality; Itineraries of Intertextuality; Past, Present and Future Itineraries; Narrative and non-Narrative Itineraries; Archives, Images, Memory. Organized by Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC and Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor, History, UC Davis
Sponsors
The organizers wish to thank Porter College, the Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence, the Department of Feminist Studies, the UC Davis Division of Social Science, the UC Davis Institute for Social Sciences, and the other institutions listed below for their generous support of this event.