For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Tali Keren will be joined by curator Kari Conte. They will discuss Keren’s past projects that consider settler colonial imagination and its role in state sanctioned violence within the context of the United States and Palestine/Israel. Keren will also share the research that she is about to conduct in Arizona on the entangled ties between the American Southwest and the Middle East through the lens of water justice. This talk marks the conclusion of Keren’s two years in the Ground Floor Program at ISCP. 

Tali Keren is a multidisciplinary artist and educator born in Jerusalem and based in Brooklyn. Her performances, videos, and installations center on the formation of political ideology, historical mythologies, and the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. Keren has exhibited at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit; Queens Museum, New York; and Eyebeam, New York, among others.

Kari Conte is a curator and writer focused on global contemporary art and Senior Advisor at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). In 2019, she curated the exhibition Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art at ISCP, which featured Tali Keren’s video installation New Jerusalem (2014-15).  

This program is supported by Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Danna and Ed Ruscha; Hartfield Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; James Rosenquist Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; The Woodman Family Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
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Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP  can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

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