{"id":9107,"date":"2023-04-19T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9107"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:15:24","slug":"apr-19-marwa-arsanios-who-is-afraid-of-ideology-part-1-and-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2023\/04\/19\/apr-19-marwa-arsanios-who-is-afraid-of-ideology-part-1-and-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marwa Arsanios: Who Is Afraid of Ideology, Part 1 and Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, April 19, 6:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Marwa Arsanios, Who Is Afraid of Ideology Part 1, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and mor charpentier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cA meditation on the relationship of human beings to the natural world, and a reckoning with the authoritative posture of conventional documentary filmmaking. \u2013 David Markus,\u00a0Frieze<\/em><\/p>\n

Since 2017, Beirut and Berlin-based artist Marwa Arsanios has been working on a series of remarkable films collectively titled WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY that explore ecology, feminism, collectivity, and resistance through Indigenous and women\u2019s communities in Kurdistan, Colombia, and Lebanon. She presents the project over two evenings, each followed by a conversation about her subjects and innovative approach.<\/p>\n

Winner of the prestigious Georges de Beauregard prize at FIDMarseille, WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY PART 1 and PART 2 examines structures of self-governance and environmentalism fostered by the Kurdish autonomous women\u2019s movement. Arsanios asks: How can the land provide refuge from oppression? She meets with groups of female guerrilla soldiers in the snow-dusted mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, interviews a woman who teaches others how to forage for edible weeds and medicinal plants, and travels to a small farming village in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Syria called Jinwar, or \u201cplace of women,\u201d where women have reimagined life without men.<\/p>\n

2017-19, Lebanon, Iraqi Kurdistan, North and East Syria,\u00a051 minutes plus discussion
\nFormat: digital video
\nIn Arabic and Kurdish with English subtitles<\/p>\n

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ABOUT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Marwa Arsanios<\/strong> is an artist, filmmaker and researcher focusing on gender relations, collectivism, urbanism, and industrialization. Solo exhibitions include the Mosaic Rooms, London (2022); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2021); \u0160kuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2018); Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); FKA Witte de With, Rotterdam (2016); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015); and Art in General, New York (2015). Her work has also been included in Documenta 15, Kassel (2022); 5th Mardin Bienali (2022); 3rd Autostrada Biennale, Pristina (2021); 11th Berlin Biennale (2020); The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2020); 2nd Lahore Biennale (2020); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2019); 1st Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019), among many others. She received the Georges de Beauregard International Prize at FID Marseille (2019), the Special Prize of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation\u2019s Future Generation Art Prize (2012), a scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2014, and the Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Arts and Space Residency in 2010. She is a cofounder of the 98weeks Research Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, April 19, 6:00 p.m. \u201cA meditation on the relationship of human beings to the natural world, and a reckoning with the authoritative posture of conventional documentary filmmaking. \u2013 David Markus,\u00a0Frieze Since 2017, Beirut and Berlin-based artist Marwa Arsanios has been working on a series of remarkable films collectively titled WHO IS AFRAID OF IDEOLOGY […]<\/p>\n

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