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SUMMARY:Cultures of Interruptions: Punk Post-Soviet Orientalism and Rebell
 ion in Art - Sara Raza 
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CONTACT:Dr Sofia Gotti
DESCRIPTION:This talk with Sara Raza will depart from her recent book P
 unk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion stemming from a long term research p
 roject on Punk\, Post-Soviet Orientalism and Rebellion in Contemporary Art
 .\nFollowing the artists’ lead\, the book Punk Orientalism presents art 
 and ideas from Sara Raza’s curatorial projects and writing\, and offers 
 an alternative to the punk movement’s proclamation of “NO FUTURE” be
 cause its interests lie in a different kind of future. This thought-provok
 ing book presents art and ideas hailing from the former Soviet Union\, foc
 using on artists from Central Asia and the Caucasus and reflecting on the 
 USSR’s complex relationship with the Arab world\, Afghanistan\, Iran\, a
 nd Turkey during and after the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR in 19
 91. The text functions as a form of bricolage\, uniting punk strategies wi
 th the critical study of Orientalism and its historical associations with 
 imperialism. Examining punk methodology as a conduit for revisionist think
 ing and rebellion\, appealing to readers interested in revolutionary pract
 ices in contemporary art.\nThematically organized Punk Orientalism focusin
 g on areas such as geopolitical games\, proxies\, conceptual landscaping a
 nd poetic codes as alternative cultural barometers\, alphabet politics (in
 cluding the displacement of language and culture)\, whistleblowing\, and t
 he ideologies of formal and informal architecture in the making and unmaki
 ng of state narratives.\n\nSara Raza is an award-winning curator and write
 r specializing in global art and visual cultures from a postcolonial and p
 ost-Soviet perspective. Raza has curated exhibitions and projects for inte
 rnational museums\, biennials\, and festivals including the Solomon R. Gug
 genheim Museum (New York)\, Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Milan)\, Rubin Muse
 um of Art (New York)\,  Mathaf: Modern Arab Art Museum (Doha\, Qatar)\, th
 e MacKenzie Art Gallery (Saskatchewan\, Canada)\, Maraya Art Center\, (Sha
 rjah)\, the Tashkent Biennale (Uzbekistan)\, the 55th Venice Biennale\, an
 d the 3rd Baku Public Art Festival (Azerbaijan)\, among others. Formerly\,
  she was the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for the Middle East and North Afri
 ca at the Guggenheim Museum\, New York and Curator of Public Programs at T
 ate Modern\, London. Raza is the West and Central Asia Desk Editor for Art
 AsiaPacific magazine and has written for numerous artist monographs\, book
 s\, and catalogues. She is the recipient of the 11th ArtTable New Leadersh
 ip Award for Women in the Arts and was honored by Deutsche Bank and Apollo
  as one of 40 under 40 global art specialists (thinkers’ category). She 
 is a Walter Hopps Curatorial Excellence Award Finalist and the Arts Counci
 l of England Emerging Curator’s Awardee (2004-05). Sara holds a BA (hons
 ) in English Literature and History of Art and an MA in 20th-Century Art H
 istory and Theory\, both from Goldsmiths College\, University of London\, 
 and pursued studies towards her PhD at the Royal College of Art\, London. 
 She lives and works in New York City\, where has taught for the School of 
 Visual Arts Masters Curatorial Practice. Currently\, Sara is a Red Burns F
 ellow at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program an
 d teaches on the Progam’s Masters’ course. \n\n
LOCATION:The Faculty of Architecture and History of Art\, LR1 
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