THE POLITICAL MANDATE OF THE ARTS WITH MYRIAM BOULOS
We cordially invite you to join us for 2023’s final student council interview on Wednesday, December 13, at 12:00 p.m. (PT) online. Join the Wende Museum Culver City, dublab radio, and the Thomas Mann House for this thrilling conversation on The Political Mandate of the Arts.
In conversation with visual artists, musicians, dancers, writers, theater and filmmakers, cultural critics, curators, and others, the students explore how the arts can make a difference in times of social and political crisis, on what social issues they can give new impulses, how they can help shape local communities, and how the alleged freedom and autonomy of the arts might impede or help in terms of social and political significance.
Myriam Boulos was born in 1992 in Lebanon. At the age of 16 she started to use her camera to question Beirut, its people, and her place among them. She graduated with a master degree in photography from L’Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts in 2015. In 2021 she was awarded the Grand prix ISEM and she joined Magnum, an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members.
The guest speaker for our December program is photographer Myriam Boulos. Boulos was born in 1992 in Lebanon. At the age of sixteen, she started to use her camera to get closer to reality. She graduated with a master’s degree in photography from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. She has taken part in both national and international collective exhibitions, including Close Enough at ICP, NY; Infinite Identities at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; and Troisième Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe, at l’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. Her work has been published in Aperture, FOAM, Time, GQ Middle East, Vogue Arabia, and Vanity Fair France, among other publications. In 2020 Myriam co-founded and became the photo editor of Al Hayya, a bilingual magazine that publishes literary and visual content on the works, interests and strife of women in her region. In 2021 she joined Magnum as a nominee. Her book, What’s Ours, was published in November 2023 by Aperture.
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