Lecture - EAHR 2013-2014 Speaker Series: Nahed Mansour

Nahed Mansour is a Toronto-based artist that works in performance, installation, and video.  She draws from personal and historic archives to address representations of gender and racial relationships. Having completed her MFA at Concordia University, she is currently the Director of Mayworks Festival-Toronto.
 
Nahed's most recent video and installation works have taken up notions of mimicry in popular entertainment. Her work speaks of physicality, performance, and power relations between generations, genders, and races. Her most recent body of work has centered on dancers/singers, ranging from Egyptian icon Sherihan to the King of Pop Michael Jackson, who become apertures for thinking about the ways in which racial identities are performed and negotiated in the globally hybrid post-colonial present. Her work aims to expose the ways in which narratives of labour and entertainment are often grafted onto the racialized physicality of bodies exploited for hyper-mediated viewing.

Additional information

Where:
EV-3.760

When:
Thursday December 5th 2013, from 6:00pm - 7:30 pm

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EAHR (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research)
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., EV.3.777
Montreal, Quebec Canada H3G 1M8
1-514-848-2424, ext. 5376

This talk has been organized by Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR), a 100% student-driven work group that engages with issues of cultural representation in the visual arts in Canada.

EAHR's activities are made possible with the support of The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Department of Art History at Concordia University.