Mesopotamian Ruins and Contemporary Art in Post-Conflict Iraq | Hanaa Malallah and Kiersten Neumann

Dr. Hanaa Malallah, Iraqi-British artist and academic, and Dr. Kiersten Neumann, ISAC Museum curator, join in a virtual conversation to talk about their collaboration on the ISAC Museum special exhibition, “Artifacts Also Die,” as well as Malallah’s artistic career and the art community in Iraq, among other topics.
The special exhibition “Artifacts Also Die” (April 5-August 27, 2023) is part of the research project “Ruins, Rubble, and Renewal: Co-existent Ruins-Exploring Iraq’s Mesopotamian Past through Contemporary Art,” led by Hanaa Malallah, who works in collaboration with local Iraqi artists at specific ancient sites inside Iraq.
Visit the special exhibit webpage to learn more: isac.uchicago.edu/artifacts
This program was recorded in July 2023.

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Mesopotamia is calling today humans to start reckoning, mourning and wailing what they have done to themselves - destroying all fossil fuel reserves in 300 years when they needed to keep them for 3 thousand years and more. Mesopotamia is calling today humanity to write Gilgamesh-Revisited - mourning, wailing and seeking wisdom; "In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future" (2017).