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Shirin Neshat: A Loss for Words

Featuring Neshat, Nato Thompson, and Phong H. Bui, with Haleh Liza Gafori

Monday, November 7, 2022 6:30 p.m. Eastern / 3:30 p.m. Pacific

A live conversation between artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat, Artwrld Co-Founder and Artistic Director Nato Thompson, and Rail Publisher and Artistic Director Phong H. Bui. We conclude with a poetry reading by Haleh Liza Gafori.

In this Talk

Join us for an in-person conversation at Industry City. This event is free but capacity is limited. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, though admission cannot be guaranteed once the event is at capacity.

900 3rd Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11232 (map)

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Shirin Neshat

A photo of Shirin Neshat on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Photo by Lyle Ashton Harris

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York. Working across photography, video, film, and opera, she explores themes of power, religion, gender, and cultural identity through her experience as an Iranian woman in exile. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at The Broad, the Hirshhorn Museum, and Museo Correr. Neshat’s films include Women Without Men (Silver Lion, 2009), Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017), and Land of Dreams(2021). She directed Aida at the Salzburg Festival (2017, 2022) and will restage it at the Paris Opera in 2025. Her honors include Golden Lion and Praemium Imperiale Awards.

Nato Thompson

A photo of Nato Thompson on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Courtesy of Nato Thompson
Author, curator and “cultural infrastructure builder” Nato Thompson is the founder of The Alternative Art School. With over 20 years of experience in the art world, he served as Artistic Director at Philadelphia Contemporary, Chief Curator at Creative Time, and Curator at MASS MoCA. He has written two books of cultural criticism, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century (Melville House, 2015) and Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (Melville House, 2017), among many other publications.

Phong H. Bui

A photo of Phong H. Bui on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Photo by Nicola Delorme
Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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