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We are looking forward to the first panel, "Mobility and the Legacy of the Grand Tour: Tourism, Residencies, and Other Fantasies.” Join us this Wednesday, June 17, 2020, at 9:00 AM Mexico Time CDT, with Karim KATTAN and panelists Jesse GERARD MPANGO, Nafasi Art Space (Tanzania) – Francisco GUEVARA, Arquetopia Foundation (Mexico, Peru, Italy) – Emily JACIR, Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research (Palestine) – Ankica MITROVSKA, Brashnar Creative Project (Macedonia). Emily JACIR As poetic as it is political and biographical, Emily Jacir’s work investigates histories of colonization, exchange, translation, transformation, resistance, and movement. A world-renowned Palestinian artist, Jacir has built a complex and compelling oeuvre through a diverse range of media and methodologies that include unearthing historical material, performative gestures, and in-depth research. Jacir is the recipient of several awards internationally, including a Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); a Prince Claus Award from the Prince Claus Fund in The Hague (2007); the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum (2008); the Alpert Award (2011) from the Herb Alpert Foundation; and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (2015). Recent solo exhibitions include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016-17); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); Darat il Funun, Amman (2014-2015); Beirut Art Center (2010); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009). She has been actively involved in education in Palestine since 2000 and deeply invested in creating alternative spaces of knowledge production internationally. She is the Founding Director of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research and was recently the curator the Young Artist of the Year Award 2018 at the A. M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah "We Shall Be Monsters". In 2003, belongings was published by O.K Books, a monograph on a selection of Jacir’s work covering the period from 1998 through 2003 which included original essays by Edward Said, Stella Rollig, Christian Kravagna and John Menick. In conjunction with her exhibition at the Kuntsmuseum in St. Gallen, a second monograph on her work w

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