Artist Michael Rakowitz will join for a post-screening conversation.

Sunday, April 13, 1:00 p.m. | Join Art21 for a special screening and conversation with celebrated artist Michael Rakowitz. The program will begin with a screening of the Art21 Extended Play film HAUNTING THE WEST (12 min.) featuring Rakowitz. Following the screening, the artist will join for a conversation. 

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Michael Rakowitz was born in 1973 in Great Neck, NY. The artist draws upon extensive research on cultural objects and events, in order to weave together complex histories and unlikely symbols in his sculptures, installations, participatory workshops, films, and architectural interventions. His Iraqi-Jewish heritage and the damage caused by long conflicts between the West and the Middle East also serve as important influences for his work. Rakowitz critiques the ongoing forces of colonization, bringing attention not only to the value of cultural artifacts that have been lost, looted, or destroyed but also to the people who have suffered from continuing violence. His work asks viewers to reconsider the relationships between hospitality and hostility, and provenance and expropriation, and to confront the complicity of cultural institutions and audiences in geopolitical matters.


The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu