Tania El Khoury: The Audience Commemorating the Dead

Saturday, October 31, 2020, 2 - 3pm

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Interactive performance and live art offer an unexampled space for audiences to engage in an embodied knowledge of the other. During these designed encounters, the audience is the artist’s co-creator and collaborator. This talk explores interactive live art that challenges nations’ borders. Drawing from her own live art practice, the artist examines the systems of embodiment that are facilitated by interactivity and their political potential in allowing audiences to embody the lives (and deaths) of others. 

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The IDS public lecture series is part of the Robert Lehman Visiting Artist Program at The Cooper Union. We are grateful for major funding from the Robert Lehman Foundation. The IDS public lecture series is also made possible by generous support from the Open Society Foundations.

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