Michael Rakowitz Panel Discussion
@ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
118 North Peoria Street Chicago, Illinois 60607
Opening Saturday, February 15th, from 3PM - 5PM
Panel discussion with Michael Rakowitz, Hannah Feldman, Claudine Ise, Sukhdev Sandhu, and Jessica Winegar.
Michael Rakowitz, an Iraqi-American conceptual artist now living in Chicago, is known nationally and internationally for provocative political and community-based art. Solo and group exhibitions include Tate Modern, London (2010), dOCUMENTA(13), the Biennale of Sydney (2008), and the Istanbul Biennial (2007), among others. His The Invisible Enemy Should not Exist is on view in Way of the Shovel at MCA-Chicago.
Hannah Feldman researches and teaches late modern and contemporary art and visual culture. Her book From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France considers the theorization of art and spectacle in Paris leading up to and throughout the Algerian War of Independence. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University and is Associate Professor at Northwestern University.
Claudine Ise served as associate curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, where she curated a number of solo and thematic group exhibitions including “Vanishing Point,” “Diptych: Jockum Nordstrom and Mindy Shapero,” “Monique Van Genderen” and “Particle Theory.” She is now an independent art critic and writer based in Chicago and teaches at University of Illinois- Chicago.
Jessica Winegar, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, is the author of numerous articles on arts, culture, and revolution in the Middle East. Her book Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford, 2006) won the Hourani prize for best book in Middle East studies.
Sukhdev Sandhu is an Associate Professor of English Literature and of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University where he also directs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture. A radio documentarian for BBC and author of books such as Nights Haunts: A Journey Through The London Night, his writings have appeared in the London Review of Books, Frieze, The Guardian, Suddeutsche Zeitung, The Wire, Sight and Sound and Bidoun.
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