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VISITING ARTIST FATIMAH TUGGAR: Methods, Making, Strategies in the Art of Fatimah Tuggar

November 3, 2020 @ 6:15 pm

VISITING ARTIST FATIMAH TUGGAR
sponsored by the School of Art + Art History, the Center for African Studies, and the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 6:15pm: Public Talk with Q+A

Methods, Making, Strategies in the Art of Fatimah Tuggar

  • Introduced by Alvaro Luis Lima

  • Screened via COTA YouTube (talk will not be recorded, ASL Interpretation Provided)

The work of visual artist Fatimah Tuggar has long engaged the processes of collage as methodology. Her object-based works are composed by utilizing hybrid assemblage readymades. Her photo-based works employ the computer as a montage tool, and her video collages apply the process of suture as a vehicle for interventions. Her web-based interactive media and extended-realities works are built with amalgams that relinquish the role of the collagist to the viewer/participant. In this talk, Tuggar will discuss the reasons for her choices of methodologies and strategies and how those impacts meaning and making.

BIO

Multidisciplinary artist Fatimah Tuggar was born in Nigeria and raised there and in the United Kingdom. She has studied, lived, and worked in the US since the late ’80s. Her work uses technology as both medium and subject to serve as metaphors for power dynamics. She combines objects, images, and sounds from diverse cultures, geographies, and histories to comment on how media and technology diversely impact local and global realities. Tuggar’s work has been widely exhibited at international venues in over twenty-five countries on five continents including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; Museum Kunst-Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the 24th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Moscow Biennale in Russia; the V Salon CANTV Jovenes, Venezuela, the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; the Kwangju Biennale, South Korea; Bamako Biennale, Mali; and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa.

Details

Date:
November 3, 2020
Time:
6:15 pm