Feb 29

Symposium: The Culture of Appearances in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
2:00 PM— 4:30 PM
365 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan
The Graduate Center 9204
Women's Studies
The symposium will discuss the relevance of fashion and material culture in shaping identity and its interrelations with issues of gender, class, code of morality and eroticism.
Free

Black History Month Jazz and Poetry
Start Time: 6pm
End Time: 9pm
African Burial Ground National Monument, 290 Broadway
Price: Free
In honor of Black History Month, a jazz concert and poetry reading at the African Burial Ground National Monument.


Sahara Chronicle Video screening and presentation by media artist Ursula Biemann. Switzerland, 2006/7, Mini DV
6:30 PM
Videos
Desert truck terminal, 13 minutes
Desert Radio Drone, 5.40 minutes
Interview Adawa, 10.20 minutes
Tuareg Border Guides, 3.47 minutes
Iron Ore Train 2.56
Oujda Frontierland 7.10
Synopsis
For the first time in New York, Ursula Biemann presents Sahara Chronicle, a video collection documenting the present sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe and the interdependence of migrations with international politics of mobility. The videos (to include Desert Truck Terminal, Interview Adawa, Tuareg Border Guides, Iron Ore Train and Deportation Prison Laayoune) show the major gates and nodes of the trans-Saharan migration network in Morocco, Niger, and Mauritania. Sahara Chronicle is part of The Maghreb Connection, an exhibition and research project directed by Biemann involving activists, scholars, and artists who live in different Mediterranean countries. (www.geobodies.org).
Filmmaker's Biography
Ursula Biemann is an artist and curator working on migrations, mobility, gender and technology. Her work has been represented in a series of international exhibitions, as well as in several books. She researches at the Institute for Theory of Art and Design HGK Zurich lectures at the CCC program of ESBA Geneva, and teaches seminars and workshops internationally.
Festivals and Awards
Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
TekFestival, Rome
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneve
FID Festival International Documentaire, Marseille
Port City, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Border Festival, Bergamo, Italy
Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden