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DESCRIPTION:Aggregate Space Gallery (ASG) presents Zamin Project, a virtual 
 multi-faceted art project aiming to create a space for dialogue and 
 connection between SWANA (South West Asia and North African) artists, 
 curators, and art educators in the Bay Area and beyond. This series is 
 initiated by Iranian-American artist Shaghayegh Cyrous, aiming to focus on 
 the question of How can we create our own resources? by gathering SWANA 
 artists, educators, and art leaders to develop a solution for enriching the 
 community in the Bay area and beyond.\n \nThis is an online only event.\n 
 \nPanel 1: SWANA in the BAY AREA: What is SWANA?\nSaturday, August 14, 
 2021, 2:00PM, Moderated by Roula Seikaly\n \n \nPanelists:\nDena Al 
 Adeeb\nTargol Mesbah\nNaz Cuguoğlu\nL.E. Brown\n\nRead about the 
 Panelists:\nDena Al-Adeeb is a transdisciplinary artist, scholar, educator, 
 and cultural worker. She is a Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre 
 for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of 
 Heidelberg and Visiting Scholar at the Department of American Studies at 
 the University of California, Davis. Dena hosts Arab/SWANA Futurisms Salons 
 bringing together voices, collectives, and movements of Arab/SWANA artists, 
 scholars and other visionaries who reflect on our pasts to imagine 
 expansive futures that are decolonial, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, 
 feminist, and queer.\n \nShe has exhibited her work internationally at 
 venues such as Mana Contemporary in New York, Museum of Tunisia and Galerie 
 le Violon Bleu in Tunis, OFF Biennale Caira and her work appears in a 
 diversity of publications including: Journal of Middle East Women’s 
 Studies, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics 
 and Politics in a Time of War Anthology.\n \n \nTargol Mesbah was born and 
 raised in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to the United States with her family 
 during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. Her research seeks to discern the 
 social, psychic, and material relations that shape the experience of wars 
 and how the aftermaths of wars shape the everyday possibilities of living, 
 knowing, loving, and dying. Michel Foucault’s writings on the analytics 
 of power as capillary movement help me articulate the creative 
 possibilities of power in resisting war-like relations of domination. The 
 Zapatista movement’s political theory and practice of building autonomous 
 communities, councils, and schools, to build a world in which many worlds 
 fit, orient her living, learning, and teaching in times of intensifying 
 environmental destruction, political violence, and displacement of human 
 and nonhuman populations. She teaches critical and postcolonial theory, 
 film, and media studies and experiments in creating non-coercive spaces of 
 learning and translation in and outside the university. Mesbah received her 
 PhD in history of consciousness at University of California Santa Cruz.\n 
 \n \nL.E. Brown (she/her) is an independent art director, documenter, and 
 researcher based between Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and Abu Dhabi, UAE. Her 
 current research project, CYBER SWANA, focuses on digital, conceptual, and 
 multimedia art from Southwest Asia, North Africa, diaspora, and beyond, 
 with an emphasis on women and queer artists. Her book by the same title 
 will be released in 2022. Previously, L.E. was founder and director of East 
 of West gallery in Santa Fe, which exhibited dozens of SWANA artists 
 working across various mediums. L.E. completed her B.A. in the History of 
 Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and 
 Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and is continuing her education towards a 
 postgraduate degree at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi.\n \n \nNaz Cuguoğlu 
 is a curator and art writer, based in San Francisco and Istanbul. She is 
 the co-founder of “Collective Çukurcuma,” experimenting with 
 collaborative thinking practices through its reading group meetings and 
 international exhibitions. Currently, she works as the Communications and 
 Media Editor at Blum & Poe. She held fellowship positions at the KADIST and 
 the Wattis Institute; researcher positions at de Young Museum and SFMOMA 
 Public Knowledge; and worked as a projects and exhibitions manager at 
 Zilberman Gallery, Maumau Art Residency, and Mixer. Since 2017, she has 
 been working as an artist advisor for Joan Mitchell Foundation, and she is 
 one of the jurors for Sondheim Artscape Prize 2021. Her writings have been 
 featured in SFMOMA Open Space, Art Asia Pacific, Hyperallergic, Nka: 
 Journal of Contemporary African Art, M-est.org, and elsewhere. She received 
 her BA in Psychology and MA in Social Psychology from Koç University, and 
 another MA from California College of the Arts’ Curatorial Practice 
 program. She has curated exhibitions and programs internationally, at 
 institutions such as Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), The Wattis Institute 
 (San Francisco), 15th Istanbul Biennial Public Program.\n \n \nRead About 
 the Moderator:\nRoula Seikaly is an independent curator and writer, and 
 Senior Editor + Co-Curatorial Director at Humble Arts Foundation. Roula has 
 curated exhibitions at SF Camerawork and SOMArts (San Francisco), Axis 
 Gallery (Sacramento), Filter Photo Festival (Chicago), CPAC (Denver), Blue 
 Sky Gallery (Portland), and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Her writing is 
 published virtually and in print at Hyperallergic, Photograph, BOMB, 
 Afterimage, Aperture, Strange Fire Collective, and KQED Arts. She is the 
 co-recipient of the 2019 Blue Sky curatorial prize for the exhibition “An 
 Inward Gaze.”\n\nPanel Discussions | Artists Interviews | Online Archival 
 Resources\nAugust 14 - 25 September 25, 2021\n 
 \n\nhttps://aggregatespacegallery.org/project/zamin/\nfacebook.com/aggregatespace\ninfo@aggregatespacegallery.org\n 
 \n \nAggregate Space Gallery programs are generously supported by the 
 Zellerbach family foundation, and have been previously supported by Andy 
 Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment of the Arts, 
 Creative Work Fund, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and others.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/07/18844179.php
SUMMARY:Zamin Project | Panel 1: SWANA In The Bay Area: What Is SWANA?
LOCATION:Virtual event only
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/08/07/18844179.php
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