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A Brief History of Collapses (2010-12) stills, notes, texts and excerpt The Trespassers (2010-11) excerpt, installation images, and texts Going, Going, Gone (2009) interview and video To Live (in progress) excerpt |
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site-responsive videos 2004-09 - info + excerpts Variations (on a Haunted Wood) (2009) performance documentation and excerpt Landscape Studies: New Mexico (2008-10) photo-text grid and excerpt Black & Blue (in progress) forthcoming |
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Index project history Index recent documentation Index of the Disappeared: The Guantanamo Effect (2013 web project) |
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Link to or PDF download of text on warm data for Viralnet (2006) documentation of warm data projects (05-ongoing) |
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Afghanistan: A Lexicon (2011) Notes on Collapse (2010-12) series 1 and series 2 Landscape Studies: New Mexico (2008-10) Speculations (2006-present) photographs + prints 2000-06 |
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PDF syllabus for Artists and Dialogue (Spring 2009) in the Art + Public Policy program at NYU / Fall 2010 revision
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Through the Screen: Notes to Permanent Transit (2002)
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*Upcoming screenings: Afghan Films clip-video at the ciné[mac] in Marseilles in July and August, as part of the European Capital of Culture exhibition Le Pont. |
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Permanent Address:
Mariam Ghani
372 DeKalb Ave #3i
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Email
mariam at kabul-reconstructions.net
Twitter
@ghanimariam
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Bio:
Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer and teacher based in Brooklyn. Her research-based practice operates at the intersections between place, memory, history, language, loss, and reconstruction. She has been awarded the NYFA and Soros Fellowships, grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, CEC ArtsLink, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Experimental Television Center, and residencies at LMCC, Eyebeam Atelier, Smack Mellon, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Her work in video, installation and photography has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and Kabul, the Sharjah Biennials 9 and 10, the 2005 Liverpool Biennial, the Beijing 798 Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the National Gallery in DC, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, CPH: DOX in Copenhagen, transmediale in Berlin, Futura in Prague, Curtacinema in Rio de Janeiro, EMAP in Seoul, d/Art in Sydney, and Bodhi Art in Mumbai. Her public and participatory projects have been commissioned by Creative Time in New York, CEPA in Buffalo, the Arab American National Museum in Detroit, Visual Correspondents in Berlin and Amsterdam, and Turbulence, artwurl, and the Longwood Digital Matrix online. Her critical writing on disappearance, warm data, spatial politics and poetics, film and video, and networked archives has been featured in Mousse, Abitare, Filmmaker, the New York Review of Books blog, FUSE, Viralnet, Pavilion, the Sarai Reader 05, Samar, the Radical History Review, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and the artist newspapers Common Possibilities and Arts and Leisure. Ghani also lectures widely and organizes/moderates exhibitions, workshops, and discussions. She has a B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU and an MFA in Photography, Video + Related Media from SVA, and has taught at Cooper Union, Parsons, the Art & Tech program at Stevens, the Public Practice program at Otis, and NYU's Art + Public Policy program. She is currently a visiting scholar at NYU's Asian Pacific American Institute.
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The fine print:
all reproductions of work by Mariam Ghani on this site and sites linked to it are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
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