Please join the art department for this remote artist talk featuring Omar Mismar.

Culling several projects created within the past nine years, the talk draws provisionary schemata that grapple with desire in the city, the beautiful in the terrible, and the parasitical in the host. From ephemeral actions to sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Mismar seeks to establish a lexicon of practices that allow for scrupulous buoyancy between the gestural, the aesthetic, and the political. Between the aestheticization of lived realities, and the instrumentalization of ambiguity and aesthetic sensibilities, is there a space that we can occupy? By wagering on a poetic occupation, a performative obliqueness emerges, which preserves the fiction essential for artistic discourse while critically disarticulating, making strange, the ideological insinuations inherent to concrete political situations.

This event is presented with support from the Ellen H. Johnson Endowment for Contemporary Art.