Advisory Council Member Emily Jacir (CRF 2009) is part of the IDS Public Lecture Series and will be speaking at the Cooper Union on May 7th, at 7pm.
Jacir will address some of the crucial questions which inform her practice and approach to unearthing historic material and in-depth research, touching on the transformation of Dar Jacir and the Jerusalem-Hebron road and the neighborhood surrounding it. Her projects often uncover silenced historical narratives, and investigate movement, transformation, exchange, colonization, and resistance through a diverse range of media and strategies including film, photography, social interventions, installation, performance, writing and sound.
As poetic as it is political and biographical, Jacir’s work involves unearthing historical material, performative gestures, and in-depth research. She has been actively involved in education in Palestine since 2000 and deeply invested in creating alternative spaces of knowledge production internationally. She is the Founding Director of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research and was recently the curator the Young Artist of the Year Award 2018 at the A. M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah. Jacir is the recipient of several awards, including a Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); a Prince Claus Award (2007); the Hugo Boss Prize (2008); and the Herb Alpert Award (2011). Jacir’s recent solo exhibitions include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); Darat al Funun, Amman (2014-2015); Beirut Art Center (2010); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009)