Publications

                                                                                                       
                            


To Accelerate Time: Reflections on Artmaking in Post-Invasion Iraq, World Records Journal, Volume 8/Article 11, edt. Kareem Estefan, Stefan Tarnawski




Embedded Horizons, Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire, edt. Aaron Hughes, Ronak K. Kapadia, Therese Quinn, Meranda Roberts, and Amber Zora





Anything You Can Imagine Is Here, The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity, edt. Ana Teixeira Pinto. Sternberg Press.






What We Are Fighting For
, e-flux journal #84. Based on e-flux lecture, Still Riding, Our Desert Storms. Republished on Open Democracy


Beyond Repair: Torture at the Berlin Biennale, Artforum. Translated to Portuguese by Mariana Leme and republished in Revista Rosa





Extraction Rebellion, n+1. Translated to Italian and republished in Internazionale. Translated to Arabic and republished by Cartography of Darkness





Fire: The Book of Dreams, The Derivative, Issue 03, Beirut Art Center. Guest editor (Fire) with contributions from Sajjad Abbas, Jananne Al-Ani, Rheim Alkadhi, Safaa al Sarray translated by Sinan Antoon, and Omar Dewachi






Data, Camera Austria.
Issue 150/15




Embedded Horizons, Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, MoMA PS1


                                                                                                                    Recolonize this Place, e-flux journal #107                     



Iraq: Reframe, Hello, Goodbye, Hello: The Sally and Don
Lucas Artists Residency Program at the Montalvo Arts Center




On the Closing of Sada for Iraqi Art, Warscapes. Republished in Future Imperfect, Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East, edited by Anthony Downey. Sternberg Press
                                                                             



A Coalition of the Willing: How Saudi Arabia and US Arts Institutions Partnered on a Cultural Diplomacy Offensive,
Hyperallergic
                                                                           



A Reply to Nato Thompson’s The Insurgents, Part 1, e-flux journal #48.




Response to Platform 4, braaz



It Is What It Is
, Jadaliyya
                                                                                                                                            



Untitled, Mutannabi Street Starts Here, edt. Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi. PM Press          



Rheim Alkadhi, Captive Lover, in Majnoon Field Guide Rheim Alkadhi. Archive Books                                                                                                                        


Archival Love Letter: Rijin Sahakian, for 6x9 doesn’t fit everything, 2021 by Ali Eyal, part of Unruly Archives. The Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto



Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud. Wellin Museum of Art Hamilton College, DelMonico Books                                                                                                                                                                                            



The Scope of the Frontier, Walid Siti




Chronicling of Mountains: Walid Siti, Walid Siti: Silent Mountains. Dohuk Gallery Press






 



Projects | Events


Images/Video + Text, SIMULATION, Open Society Fellowship (Art, Land and Public Memory)
Selected Work, 22nd Biennial Videobrasil: Memory is an Editing Station, São Paulo
Sada [regroup} at the Chicago Culture Center and Hyde Park Art Center, Suriving the Long Wars
Talk, Twenty Years After the Invasion of Iraq, Georgetown University
Discussion and Screening, e-flux Screenng Room, NYC
Lecture, You Don’t Make it Public, Kirik, Istanbul
Seminar, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Artist/Director, SADA [REGROUP], Documenta Fifteen
Seminar + Screening, Zurich University of the Arts
Advisor, Talk, Writer, Withdrawal, 12th Berlin Biennale
Screening/ Discussion, Documenta Fifteen, Kassel
Savvy ContemporaryNot a Ready Made History, Episode 2  Instituting
Video, ANTHEM, part of Sada [regroup]
Examiner, Cultural Practice, University of Bergen
Lecture, World-building in the Wake, Darat al Funun, Amman
Contributor, Theater of Operations at MoMA PS1, NYC
Curatorial Workshop, Rheim Alkadhi: Majnoon Field, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
Lecture + Media, STILL RIDING, Our Desert Storm(s), e-flux lecture program, NYC
Panelist, Vera List Center/
Cabinet Magazine, NYC
Director, SADA (2011-2015)
Lecture, The Afterlife of Fascism, La Colonie, Paris
Curator, SAJJAD ABBAS and LAITH K. DAER: CITY LIMITS, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Gallery 
Panelist, Teaching Art of the Middle East and the Islamic World, de Young Museum, San Francisco
Lecture + Media, Cultural Harvesting, Home Works 7, Beirut
Interview, Where is Iraq Today, 12 Years After the U.S. Invasion?, KALW Public Media
Curator, SHANGRI LA: IMAGINED CITIES, City of Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Speaker, 2013 Nuqat Conference on Art and Design, Kuwait City
Lecture, Curating the Region: Reflections From Here and Elsewhere, The New Museum, NYC
Lecture, 10 Years On: Art and Everyday Life in Iraq and Iran, Global Futures Forum,
London
BORDER TO BAGHDAD, El Paso/Baghdad
Panelist, Art and War in Iraq Symposium, Brown University
Lecture, Distance Learning @the Lab, Darat al Funun, Amman
Sada (Echo) at the Pavillion of Iraq, Venice Biennale of Art 2011
Talk, Building New Geographies of Practice, Sharjah Art Foundation
Talk, Art and ‘The War on Terror,’ Ten Years On, College Arts Association, NYC
Anniversary Reading:Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, San Francisco Center for the Book
Curator, IRAQ: REFRAME, Silicon Valley




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