"Performing the Archive, Placing the Past": A performance with Walid Raad and Iris Haussler October 3, 2007

Performers, visual artists, and animators of imagined pasts, Raad and Haussler both make work that plays on the unstable boundary between artistic fact and historical fiction. Raad's photographic, documentary, and academic fabrications deal with the occluded past of conflict in Lebanon, while Haussler's domestic environments promise access to the interior worlds of people who never were. Join these two artists in conversation with UMN faculty members. Organized by the Space & Place collaborative. Sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study, the Department of Art, the Department of Theater Arts and Dance and the Institute for Global Studies.