Pay a visit to SFMOMA's blog,
Open Space, to drink in the first post by our good friend and sometimes collaborator, marcella faustini.
marcella kicks off her series of conversations with artists by sharing some of the notes, research, and inspiration for her discussions. She describes it thus:
"the somewhat frantic organization, full of links (that will neatly open
for you, in a new tab. so go ahead and click) and imagery, mimics to
some extent my process of going about compiling information and
inspiration for these talks. they also function as the preface to the
narrative that connects my (hi)story to the ones i will
be encountering through these talks."
An artist whose conversation with marcella I look forward to is Morehshin Allahyari (image above)
– in order to expand its own fictional
lines of terror, isis has taken to salafism, an ultra-conservative
reform movement which vouches for the implementation of extreme islamist
beliefs to the point of self-annihilation. this can be observed by
their ongoing destruction of their own historical visual culture. artist
morehshin allahyari’s project
material speculation, offers
a way to subvert the damage by using 3d printing and modeling to
re-create these destroyed and thought forever lost objects: “The first
series ‘Material Speculation: ISIS’ is an in progress 3D modeling and 3D
printing project focused on the reconstruction of selected (original)
artifacts (statues from the Roman period city of Hatra and Assyrian
artifacts from Nineveh) that were destroyed by ISIS in 2015. “Material
Speculation: ISIS” creates a practical and political possibility for
artifact archival, while also proposing 3D printing technology as a tool
both for resistance and documentation. It intends to use 3D printing as
a process for repairing history and memory.”
