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In the final ICP Talks of the Spring 2024 season, Shirin Neshat, recipient of the 2024 ICP Infinity Award in Lifetime Achievement, is joined at ICP by two pioneer performance and visual artists, Marina Abramovic and Joan Jonas.
About the Series
The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer’s Lecture Series presents one-hour live events featuring scholars and curators in conversation with renowned photographers who champion social change through photography, employ exciting alternative and emerging practices, or ask critical questions about the form. This year’s Spring Season includes Teju Cole (March 11), Pete Souza with Dawn Porter (March 20), Christina Fernandez with Katherine Bussard (April 3), and Shirin Neshat with Marina Abramovic and Joan Jonas (April 30).
Recent participants in ICP Talks include Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Pacifico Silano, Farah Al Qasimi, Shala Miller, Sunil Gupta, Muriel Hasbun, Clifford Prince King, and Catherine Opie.
Current ICP students and faculty of the One-Year Certificate Programs are automatically enrolled and invited to attend all lectures.
The 2023-2024 Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series is made possible through generous support from the Rosenblum Family. Naomi Rosenblum (1925–2021) was a leading historian of photography and a collector; her collection is celebrated in the publication A Humanist Vision: The Naomi Rosenblum Family Collection.
About the Speakers
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York. Neshat works and continues to experiment with the mediums of photography, video and film, which she imbues with highly poetic and politically charged images and narratives that question issues of power, religion, race, gender and the relationship between the past and present, East and West, individual and collective through the lens of her personal experiences as an Iranian woman living in exile.
Neshat has held numerous solo exhibitions at museums internationally including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museo Correr, Venice, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Neshat has directed three feature-length films, “Women Without Men” (2009), which received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, “Looking For Oum Kulthum” (2017), and most recently “Land of Dreams,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival (2021).
Neshat was awarded the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Biennale di Venezia (1999), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2006) and in 2017, she received the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award in Tokyo.
She is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York and Goodman Gallery in London.
Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, Marina Abramovic has pioneered performance art, creating some of the form's most important early works. Exploring her physical and mental limits, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation.
Abramovic was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2010, Abramovic had her first major U.S. retrospective and simultaneously performed for over 700 hours in “The Artist is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Abramovic founded Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields.
Abramovic published her memoir, “Walk Through Walls,” with Crown Archetype on October 25, 2016. Her most recent publication is “A Visual Biography,” was published by Laurence King in 2023.
Her retrospective “The Cleaner” opened at Moderna Museet, Stockholm in February 2017 and toured to seven additional European venues, ending at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia in 2019. In September 2020 the Bayerische Staats Oper presented the world premiere of Marina’s opera project “7 Deaths of Maria Callas,” which has continued to tour to various cities across Europe. In September 2023 she opened her solo exhibition at the Royal Academy, and became the first female artist in the institution’s 250 year history to occupy the entire gallery space with her work.
Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York, NY, USA) is a pioneer of video and performance art, and an acclaimed multimedia artist whose work typically encompasses video, performance, installation, sound, text, and drawing. Trained in art history and sculpture, Jonas was a central figure in the performance art movement of the late 1960s, and her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theater. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of ritual, and the authority of objects and gestures.
Joan Jonas is a New York native and she continues to live and work in New York City. She received a B.A. in Art History from Mount Holyoke College in 1958, studied sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and received an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Columbia University in 1965. Jonas has taught at MIT since 1998, and is currently Professor Emerita in the MIT Program in Art.
