Art News:
NEWS RELEASE
Cambridge, MA
September 16, 2010
Harvard exhibition explores the question "How can wars of the present and the experience of war be adequately represented?"
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University and the Goethe-Institut Boston present The Image in Question: War – Media – Art, with work by Peggy Ahwesh, Kota Ezawa, Harun Farocki, Jean-Luc Godard, William E. Jones, Lamia Joreige, Allan Sekula, Wael Shawky, and Fazal Sheikh.
On view from October 21—December 23, 2010 the exhibition features video installation, animation, and photographic works that explore strategies of representation of conflict and loss in our increasingly computerized age of combat. The exhibition includes the North American premiere of Serious Games 1 / Watson is Down by Harun Farocki, a single-channel installation focusing on the use of virtual reality to train soldiers for combat, filmed at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center known as 29 Palms in California.
Thursday, October 21, at 6 pm, Antje Ehmann will moderate a panel discussion with artists Peggy Ahwesh, Kota Ezawa, Harun Farocki, William E. Jones, Lamia Joreige, Allan Sekula, Wael Shawky, and Fazal Sheikh. The opening celebration with the artists and curators will follow.
The Image in Question: War – Media – Art is curated by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki.
PLEASE READ THE ATTACHED PRESS RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
