"ANXIETY
IN ARTS AND WARS" IS TOPIC OF PRESENTATION
BY RENATA SALECL, OCT. 12
NEW
YORK, N.Y. -- "Anxiety in Arts and Wars" a presentation
by Renata Salecl on the artwork of Tsibi Geva
will be given from 7-9 p.m. on Friday, Oct.
12, in Room 903 of Altschul Hall at Barnard
College.
Salecl
is a researcher in the Department of Law at
the Institute of Criminology, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
and has published widely in the areas of feminism,
psychoanalysis and political theory. She is
also a visiting scholar, fall 2001, at the Gender
Studies Program, New School for Social Research,
New York. Among her books are: Per Versions
of Love and Hate (1988) and The Spoils
of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism After
the Fall of Socialism (1994). She is the
co-editor with Slavoj Zizek of Sexuation
and of Gaze and Voice as Love Objects.
Salecl
will address the work of Tsibi Geva, an Israeli
artist whose work is currently showing at the
Annina Nosei Gallery in Chelsea (530 West 22nd
Street, 2nd floor -- near 10th Avenue: open
Tues.-Sat., 11a.m. - 6p.m.). The artist will
attend the gallery Friday afternoon and Saturday.
The show ends on Oct. 13.
Tsibi
Geva lives and works in Tel-Aviv. He was raised
in Kibbutz in-Shemer. In his work he concentrates
on the relations between inner and outer conflict
in the individual, cultural and national dimensions,
as well as the dimension of art. One of Geva's
central motifs since the mid-80s is the Keffiah
-- an Arab head covering which became the symbol
of the Palestinian struggle against the occupation.
The current installation is an attempt to reconstruct
and transport an existential moment of judgment
from the Middle East to a gallery in Chelsea.
The installation uses the tension between Arab
and Israeli to universalize The days of Awe
(The ten days in the Jewish tradition intended
for serious introspection). The talk is sponsored
by the English Department.
Contact:
212-854-2297
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