On the occasion of Morehshin Allahyari’s solo exhibition: Material Speculation at Trinity Square Video, we are pleased to invite you to a public panel with the artist, in discussion with art historian and critic Pamela Karimi, and researcher and writer Dina Georgis. The panel will discuss their research in relationship to Allahyari’s work, Material Speculation: ISIS, a digital fabrication and 3D printing project focused on the reconstruction of selected artifacts that were destroyed by ISIS in 2015.

Situated in the political, social and cultural web of relations that Material Speculation proposes—from petropolitics, war, conflict materials, and terrorism—the panel explicitly challenges potentially polarizing and Islamophobic responses to the work, while probing its aesthetic, radical and complicated insights. The goal is to offer artistic contexts and theoretical readings of the exhibition while tying it to contemporary events of war, terrorism and the material/political worlds it implicates. More Information: http://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/panel-material-speculation/