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Elle Flanders: Visit Palestine/ Change your View: Socially Engaged Art in Israel/Palestine

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Thursday, February 19, 2015
6:15 pm - 7:15 pm
Elle Flanders
Israel/Palestine: Comparative Perspectives on Political Futures

Filmmaker Elle Flanders come to campus for an event entitled: "Visit Palestine/ Change your View: Socially Engaged Art in Israel/Palestine."Elle Flanders is a filmmaker and artist based in Toronto. She was raised in Montreal and Jerusalem and holds both an MA in Critical Theory and an MFA from Rutgers University. She holds a PhD in Visual Arts and is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program where she mentored with Mary Kelly and Martha Rosler. Flanders¿ work has been screened and exhibited internationally including: the Museum of Modern Art; Berlin International Film Festival; The Toronto International Film Festival, the MOCCA and the Incheon Biennial.Her collective art practice is Public Studio with architect Tamira Sawatzky. Their practice employs a diverse range of media resulting in large-scale public art works, films, immersive installations, lens-based works and socially engaged projects. Public Studio explores the intersection of art and architecture, urbanization and industrialization with a particular focus on landscape and the effects of war in the everyday.

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