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AFVS faculty member Giuliana Bruno appointed to Fondazione Prada Steering Commitee

September 19, 2023

The  Steering Committee will explore in depth the most important topics of our times, and investigate up-and-coming questions regarding the future. Its main functions are to identify the most stimulating research areas to develop multidisciplinary projects that can impact the contemporary cultural debate and indicate possible lines for...

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Giuliana Bruno in conversation with Carmen Boullosa at Harvard Bookstore September 12th @7pm

September 5, 2023
Please join us for a conversation between Professor Giuliana Bruno (Harvard, AFVS) and acclaimed Mexican writer and artist Carmen Boullosa on her new feminist novel, The Book of Eve, named one of the Best Books of 2023 by The New Yorker.

What if everything they’ve told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Come and hear how Eve decides to tell her own version of the story of Genesis.

Carmen Boullosa is an award-winning Mexican poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and artist. The author of twenty novels, three... Read more about Giuliana Bruno in conversation with Carmen Boullosa at Harvard Bookstore September 12th @7pm
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Artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir and Curator Dan Byers announced for the Icelandic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024

April 24, 2023

The Icelandic Art Center is delighted to announce that Reykjavik-based artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir will represent Iceland at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (20 April – 24 November 2024). She will collaborate with American curator Dan Byers to realise her presentation, which will be an exhibition of new sculptural and installation works. The Icelandic Pavilion will be located in the Artigliere in the Arsenale for the second time in 2024....

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‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ Review: Showing What We’re Made Of

April 21, 2023
The latest adventure in perception from Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor takes its title from Vesalius’s 1543 catalog of the human form that was both scientific compendium and work of art. “De Humani Corporis Fabrica,” Paravel and Castaing-Taylor’s experimental nonfiction film, also explores the many landscapes and textures of our bodies, as examined and broached within the institutional settings of French hospitals. Through these directors’ eyes, these bodies look wondrous and unsettling, macabre and beautiful, and often uncannily unfamiliar.... Read more about ‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ Review: Showing What We’re Made Of
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‘Dry Ground Burning’ Review: Feminist Gangsters, Brazilian Style

April 21, 2023
In Hollywood these days, radical chic is back in fashion. A number of sexy thrillers that dramatize the history of radical politics or pose provocative hypotheticals about the future of activism have emerged. For my money, none match the incendiary power of “Dry Ground Burning,” a feminist gangster movie from Brazil that spits oil in the face of that country’s... Read more about ‘Dry Ground Burning’ Review: Feminist Gangsters, Brazilian Style