Your Skin Shall Bear Witness Against You — On Memory, Materiality, and the Body of the Witness (Vartan Avakian)
When:
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT
Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free; public welcome!
Contact:
Jill Mannor
(847) 467-3970
Group: Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Co-Sponsor:
Middle East and North African Studies
Category: Academic, Fine Arts
Description:
Your Skin Shall Bear Witness Against You — On Memory, Materiality, and the Body of the Witness
“This is the story of a judicial investigator, a biochemist, and a salamander. They stand centuries apart each staring at a trace.”
A talk by Vartan Avakian, Spring 2022 Artist in Residence of the Kaplan Humanities Institute and the Middle East and North African Studies Program.
Artwork: Detail from Residual Histories by Vartan Avakian.