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Talk on Art with Alia Farid
From April 15, 2013 until April 29, 2013
On Monday, April 29, Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid will be holding a talk on art with the people of Cordoba at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in this city.
The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Casa Árabe Auditorium (address: Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9), with free entrance until the room’s capacity is full. During the conference, Farid will articulate her experience in terms of the different environments in which she works, through a combination of images and anecdotes.
Artist Alia Farid describes her work in the following way: “I began to explore my work as an artist at a point somewhere between art, architecture and public space. As of today, I remain interested in exploring these areas, but with a much greater focus on explaining how informal networks are required to make up for their lack of formal structures, because one of the things I value the most is the subversive quality of art which goes unnoticed.”
A Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist who works at the place where art and education intersect by developing spaces for action and critical though, she earned her degree in Fine Arts from the Puerto Rico School of Plastic Arts in 2006 (in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico), and in 2011 she was a student of the Independent Studies Program (PEI – MACBA, Barcelona), where she completed a Master’s program in “Museum Studies and Critical Theory.” In 2008, she took part in the Visual Arts program at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts), where she completed a Master’s course on “Science in the Visual Arts.” In 2009, she was named the Director of Al Sabah Art & Design, in Kuwait, and at present she works with the National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters, within the Department of Heritage and Museums, focusing her attention on the development of public programs and promoting inter-institutional relations. The National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters is a public, government cultural organization funded by the State of Kuwait, with the cooperation of Dar Al Athar Al Islamiyyah.
Artist Alia Farid describes her work in the following way: “I began to explore my work as an artist at a point somewhere between art, architecture and public space. As of today, I remain interested in exploring these areas, but with a much greater focus on explaining how informal networks are required to make up for their lack of formal structures, because one of the things I value the most is the subversive quality of art which goes unnoticed.”
Alia Farid (n. 1985)
A Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist who works at the place where art and education intersect by developing spaces for action and critical though, she earned her degree in Fine Arts from the Puerto Rico School of Plastic Arts in 2006 (in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico), and in 2011 she was a student of the Independent Studies Program (PEI – MACBA, Barcelona), where she completed a Master’s program in “Museum Studies and Critical Theory.” In 2008, she took part in the Visual Arts program at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts), where she completed a Master’s course on “Science in the Visual Arts.” In 2009, she was named the Director of Al Sabah Art & Design, in Kuwait, and at present she works with the National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters, within the Department of Heritage and Museums, focusing her attention on the development of public programs and promoting inter-institutional relations. The National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters is a public, government cultural organization funded by the State of Kuwait, with the cooperation of Dar Al Athar Al Islamiyyah.
