The Arts at CIIS: 2011-12 Exhibitions
Yehudhith and The Grandfathers
Nov 3 2011 - Jan 28 2012Elliot Ross’s portraits of contemporary Jewish women paired with Carolyn Radlo and Alanna Simone’s fifteen-part video meditation on identity, place, projection, and recollection.
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June Yong Lee: The Torso Series
Nov 9 2011 - Jan 28 2012In his Torso Series from 2010, June Yong Lee creates photographic images intimately and arrestingly corporeal.
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Laramie: A Gem City Atlas
Dec 7 2011 - Jan 21 2012University of Wyoming Creative Writing students collaborated with artist/cartographers Shizue Seigel and Ben Pease to create an atlas of Laramie.
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Omar Pimienta: Translation
Jan 26 2012 - Mar 16 2012Across two languages and two nations. A perpetual shift between images that relate to words, words that relate to objects, objects that relate to time.
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Ali Dadgar: Radiant States: Reflections on Solidarity
Feb 2 2012 - Apr 13 2012We are collectively mesmerized by images of protesters standing weaponless in front of an armed military, bathed in the radiant and penetrating light of solidarity.
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Viva Paredes: Ceremonias Nocturnas
Feb 2 2012 - Mar 30 2012At the intersection of mythology, ethnobotany, art, and spirituality, Viva Paredes explores and celebrates the work of Mexican curandera María Sabina.
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Feb 6 2012A reception with artist Ali Dadgar, and a conversation with Noura Khouri and Shimaa Helmy, who will show slides and video from the Egyptian revolution.
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Feb 28 2012A conversation about entheogenics and sacred healing practices.
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Mar 2 2012Poetry reading and reception with artist Omar Pimienta.
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MENA Experimental
Apr 11 2012Recent Experimental Film and New Media from the Middle East, North Africa, and their Diasporas.
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Bayete Ross Smith: Mirrors
Apr 11 2012 - May 31 2012Direct and impactful, Bayeté Ross Smith’s work explores perception and misperception, the performance of identity, and the culturally blurry line between violence which is considered recreational and that which is deplorable and criminal.
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Apr 27 2012The Arts at CIIS, in collaboration with the CIIS MFA program, presents renowned performance artist, philosopher and “deviant shaman”, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, for an evening of spoken word and ritual performance.
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