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Moving Artists: “Can art change the world?”
March 12, 20187:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Ambassadors’ Hall (at Calle Alcalá, 62). First floor.
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish and English, with consecutive translation.
Casa Árabe is hosting this round table discussion, which will deal with
topics such as the reality of artistic practice in countries undergoing
conflict, as well as other subject matter.
Taking part in the event is Ixone Sádaba, an artist and researcher, and founder of Moving Artists; Azar Othman, a sculptor completing a residency at Moving Artists, and Niga Salam, a photographer also completing a residency at Moving Artists. Presented by Pedro Martínez-Avial, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
Prolonged war conflicts and humanitarian crises often lead to the closure of borders and cultural isolation, thereby conditioning cultural production within the affected regions and distorting cultural perceptions abroad.
At this round table discussion, we will be dealing with topics such as the reality of artistic practice in countries enduring conflict such as Afghanistan, and post-conflict places like Kurdistan, as well as the greatest threats to artistic practice and the right to artistic freedom and other subjects.
The event will include the notable participation of resident artists Azar Othman (sculptor, 31 years old) and Niga Salam (photographer, 21 years old), both from Suleimaniya, the cultural capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan.
Also participating will be Ixone Sádaba, the founder of Moving Artists. An artist and researcher with an MFA from the International Center of Photography in New York, she has more than twenty years of experience in the art world and has spent her career between the United States, London and Iraq. Ixone has had her work exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the MoCCa Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto and the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center.
Moving Artists is an independent non-profit organization that works to achieve movement and transnational exchanges among professionals working with art that is threatened by situations of conflict, crisis, instability or censorship. The organization seeks to create new spaces for cooperation in artistic production, thereby producing channels of movement for mutual interaction among the artists from such countries and outside art communities. The organization has carried out its first exchange with two Iraqi-Kurdish artists who were granted a scholarship for an artistic residency in Bilbao. The project has been given the sponsorship of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, Bilbao Ekintza and the Basque Government (Eremuak).
Prolonged war conflicts and humanitarian crises often lead to the closure of borders and cultural isolation, thereby conditioning cultural production within the affected regions and distorting cultural perceptions abroad.
At this round table discussion, we will be dealing with topics such as the reality of artistic practice in countries enduring conflict such as Afghanistan, and post-conflict places like Kurdistan, as well as the greatest threats to artistic practice and the right to artistic freedom and other subjects.
The event will include the notable participation of resident artists Azar Othman (sculptor, 31 years old) and Niga Salam (photographer, 21 years old), both from Suleimaniya, the cultural capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan.
Also participating will be Ixone Sádaba, the founder of Moving Artists. An artist and researcher with an MFA from the International Center of Photography in New York, she has more than twenty years of experience in the art world and has spent her career between the United States, London and Iraq. Ixone has had her work exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the MoCCa Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto and the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center.
Moving Artists is an independent non-profit organization that works to achieve movement and transnational exchanges among professionals working with art that is threatened by situations of conflict, crisis, instability or censorship. The organization seeks to create new spaces for cooperation in artistic production, thereby producing channels of movement for mutual interaction among the artists from such countries and outside art communities. The organization has carried out its first exchange with two Iraqi-Kurdish artists who were granted a scholarship for an artistic residency in Bilbao. The project has been given the sponsorship of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, Bilbao Ekintza and the Basque Government (Eremuak).
