Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture - “Addressed, Folded, Opened, Performed, and Buried: Letters as a Form of Art”

In this talk, Akram Zaatari will guide us through various samples of his work, borrowing the letter-format to engage/contribute in writing a complex disputed history. The talk will end with a screening of his latest work Letter to Refusing Pilot, produced for the Lebanon Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2013. The talk will take place in Dunning Hall Auditorium (94 University Avenue), and the following reception will take place at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Akram Zaatari is an artist, curator and writer based in Beirut. He is one of the co-founders of the Arab Image Foundation (www.fai.org.lb) a non-profit organization whose mission is to collect, preserve and study photographs from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora. The first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in Canada, Akram Zaatari: All Is Well, is on display at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre until 30 March 2014. This event is generously supportedby the Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture, Queen's University, and the Canada Council for the Arts Visiting Foreign Artists Program.