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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/rijin-sahakian-twenty-years-after-t
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SUMMARY:Rijin Sahakian\, “Twenty Years After the Invasion of Iraq: Sada i
 n Context’
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nBrooklyn\, NY\nJoin us at e-flux Screening Room on Thur
 sday\, June 8 at 7pm for “Twenty Years After the Invasion of Iraq: Sada 
 in Context\,” an evening with Rijin Sahakian. Guest-curated by Ali Huss
 ein Al-Adawy\, the evening will feature a screening of Sada [regroup] (2
 022)\, and a discussion with Sahakian and Dina Ramadan.\n\nThe program is
  co-presented with ArteEast\, and is part of the legacy program Unpacking
  the ArteArchive\, which preserves and presents twenty years of film and v
 ideo programming by the organization. It will be accompanied by an online 
 screening on artearchive.org through June 9-18\, 2023\, featuring Sada 
 [regroup] as well as a selection of documentary works created by students
  of the Baghdad-based Independent Film &amp\; Television College co-foun
 ded in 2004 by Maysoon Pachachi and Kasim Abid. For more information on th
 e online screening go to artearchive.org.\n\nSajjad Abbas\, Ali Eyal\, Sa
 rah Munaf\, Rijin Sahakian\, Bassim Al Shaker​\n\nSada [regroup]\n\n2022
 \, 54 minutes | In Arabic with English subtitles\, and English with Arabic
  subtitles | Commissioned by documenta fifteen\n\nFrom 2011-2015\, Sada\, 
 an online and in person ad hoc art school\, was set up in Baghdad to suppo
 rt artists working through the aftermath of US-led invasion and occupation
 . Nearly a decade later\, former artists of Sada came together again\, ref
 lecting on their creative and disparate lives since that time. Artists Saj
 jad Abbas\, Bassim Al Shaker\, Ali Eyal\, Sarah Munaf\, and Rijin Sahakian
  each created video works\, comprising one experimental\, interconnected a
 nthology film on individual and collective art practice in a protracted er
 a of international warfare.\n\nUsing street footage\, narrative\, and docu
 mentary\, Sajjad Abbas’s Water of Life tracks its filmmakers' urge to
  forge protest that is bigger than himself\, following monumental artwork
 \, migration\, and the return to place and protest. In Ali Eyal’s The 
 Blue Ink Pocket\, a mysterious letter from an artist is authored to commun
 icate the futility of describing violence in full\, its scattering of mean
 ing\, and the power it derives through its lesser understood perpetrators 
 and permutations. In Journey Inside a City\, shot in Iraq\, Turkey\, and 
 Ukraine\, Sarah Munaf layers her experience as a sculptor and as part of
  a threatened community of artists and residents in Baghdad\, and\, later\
 , as a refugee finding her way in coastal Turkey as her parents navigate l
 ife in Ukraine. In Barbershop\, stop-motion animation\, cutout drawings\,
  and first-person storytelling give shape to the artist Bassim Al Shaker
 ’s memory of his own kidnapping and its impact on his personal and creat
 ive life in the years that followed. Taking moments from popular and polit
 ical culture during the 1991 Iraq war and the second invasion of Iraq\, R
 ijin Sahakian’s Anthem argues against the use of multinational warfare
  in its varying methodologies— from technology to the arts—to extingui
 sh life.\n\nFor more information\, contact program@e-flux.com.\n\nAccessib
 ility  \n\n–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front ent
 rance at 172 Classon Avenue.\n\n–For elevator access\, please RSVP to pr
 ogram@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the
  e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon A
 ve (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.\n\n–e
 -flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screen
 ing Room and this bathroom.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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