A Conversation with Artist Dor Guez: Archives, Narrative and Memory

Jerusalem-born artist and scholar Dor Guez's groundbreaking work - at the intersection of photography, video and archives - resonates globally and contributes to broader conversations about nationality and its impact on locality and the individual. In this event, Guez and Dr. Rotem Rozental discuss his recent projects. Program recorded October 13, 2021.

Webinar sponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Information Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and Artis.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Prof. Dor Guez is an artist and a scholar. He was born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family on his mother's side and a family of Jewish immigrants from Tunisia on his father's. Guez's photography, video, essays, and lecture-performances explore the relationship between art, narrative, and memory. In the past 20 years, his studies and artistic work focus on archival materials and photographic practices of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as mapping traces and structures of violence in the landscape. Guez received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 2014 and became a full professor at Bezalel Academy of the Arts and Design in 2018. He is the founder of the CPA (Christian-Palestinian Archive), the head of the Master of Fine Arts Program at Bezalel, and the co-director of Seaport: Mediterranean Curatorial Residency.

Dr. Rotem Rozental is Chief Curator and Senior Director of Art and Creative Programming at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. She is Faculty Member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and recently curated the virtual exhibition Dana Arieli: The Zionist Phantom with The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. She received her M.A. from the Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas at Tel Aviv University in 2011, and her Ph.D. from the Art History Department at Binghamton University, New York, in 2019.

DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.

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