Mariam Ghani - Kabul Reconstructions

Mariam Ghani mariam@kabul-reconstructions.net www.kabul-reconstructions.net/mariamwho stage, subvert, provoke, intervene in or document public dialogues. With Carlos Motta, OliverRessler, Sharon Hayes, Lex Bhagat, Stephanie Rothenberg, Nina Leo & Stefani Bardin, theGuerrillaGirlsBroadBand, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and InCUBATE, Material Exchange & AdamBobbette. Includes a 5-part screening series, a performance series, two poster projects for publicbus shelters, three co-sponsored lectures, and a 156-page exhibition reader.Spring 2008: Tracing the Index: 4 Discussions, 4 Venues. Series of public programs organized withChitra Ganesh and co-presented by the Vera List Center for Art & Politics at the New School,NYU’s Kevorkian Institute for Near Eastern Studies, Center for Media, Culture and History, andCenter for Media and Religion, Art in General, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts (in conjunctionwith the exhibition Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art and Community) on themesrelated to our collaborative project Index of the Disappeared, all of which were recorded, madeavailable online at www.kabul-reconstructions.net/index, added to the Index archive, and willeventually be transcribed as part of an Index publication. Included 16-page program notes.September – November 2007: Index of the Disappeared: Public Program Series 07. Series of publicprograms organized with Chitra Ganesh in conjunction with the presentation of the Index archiveat UBS for the 25 Years Later show. Programs included a library orientation and storytellingsession, a screening, and a panel discussion on the theme of archiving unspeakable or censoredmaterials.January – May 2007: Focus on Lebanon, a series of public programs co-presented by the KevorkianCenter for Middle East Studies at NYU and arts organizations across the city. Co-organized withartists John Jurayj, Sumaya Samaha, and Walid Raad, writers Elias Khoury and Jacque Moorad,filmmaker Tom McCarthy, and curators Rasha Salti and Shiva Balaghi.Spring 2006 at the Asian American Art Center: Detained, an exhibition and public program seriesexploring the communal, political, and spiritual convergences and conversions evoked by the storyof Captain James Yee. Co-organized with artists Tina LaPorta, Trong Nguyen, and Tomie Arai,Rabab Abdulhadi of the Arab American Studies Center at UMichigan, and Bob Lee of the AsianAmerican Art Center.October 19 th – 20 th , 2000 at Exit Art: Coded Bodies, a two-day video and performance eventfeaturing work by South Asian women that explored the coded meanings of the body throughworks examining traditional and non-traditional dress, private and public rituals, and bodyadornments and movements. In collaboration with Chitra Ganesh and Swati Khurana of the SouthAsian Women’s Creative Collective. With program notes.V I D E O G R A P H Y1999 Repeat Fugitive (1 channel, 9:00)Looped (2 channels, 14:00)2000 Shahrazade Divided (1 channel, 50:00)Blind Crossing / Crossing Blind (2 channels, 3:10)Universal Games (1 channel installation, 2:20 loop)2001 My Name on Your Lips (sounds so foreign) (2 channel installation, 3:30)For Your Safety: Reasons to Stay Inside (1 channel, 12:00)The Last Home Movie (2 channel installation, 3:00)Progress / Armenia Dreams Gasoline (2 channels, 14:00)Beirut Nocturne (1 channel, 3:50)2002 Permanent Transit (1 channel surround sound installation, 24:00)Friendly Fire (1 channel installation, 3:10)2003 Kabul: Reconstructions (1 channel, 6:24)Miraculous Dissolves (Performance in the Age of Martha Stewart Living) (1 channelinstallation, 5:00)The Glass House Home Movies (4-in-1 ch video with 5-ch interactive audio, 15:00)2004 TRACEXCHANGEXCAVATE (1 channel surround sound installation, 19:40, collaborationwith Emily Tepper & Michael Floyd)How Do You See the Disappeared? (1 channel, 9:28)