Institute of Contemporary Arts

Marc Bijl, Iraqi Stars (proposal for a monument), 2007, Polystyrene, paint, concrete plaster, warning tape 490 x 368 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist and The Breeder, Athens

Memorial to the Iraq War: Ahdaf Soueif + Eyal Weizman

A conversation between London-based Egyptian novelist and political commentator, Ahdaf Soueif, and Glasgow-based writer and curator Francis McKee, followed by a lecture by architect Eyal Weizman (Goldsmith College, London) both addressing issues raised by Memorial to the Iraq War.

Soueif is the author of, amongst others, the bestselling Booker Prize nominated The Map of Love (Bloomsbury, 1999), and she is also a political and cultural commentator. McKee is director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow. Weizman is director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, and his books include Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (Verso, 2007).

Event organised by Mai Abu ElDahab.
 

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