The Film/Cinema Concentration will be welcoming Noor Abed as a guest speaker on Wednesday, February 14th at 9:30am (via ZOOM). She will show her recent films A Night We Held Between (2023) and our songs were ready for all wars to come (2021). See poster and artist bio below for more information.
Hope you can join! Please reach out to Anna Hogg (aeh8rg) with any questions about the talk or to get a Zoom link.
Noor Abed (Palestine) works at the intersection of performance and film. Her works create situations where social possibilities are both rehearsed and performed. Abed attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in Νew York in 2015-16, and the Home Workspace Program (HWP) at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut 2016-17. In 2020, she co-founded, with Lara Khaldi, the School of Intrusions, an independent educational collective in Ramallah, Palestine. Abed was an assistant curator in documenta fifteen, kassel 2021-22. She is currently an artist in resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam 2022-24 and was recently awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation/Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Grant 2022.