Posts tagged "CLIP"

CLIP: WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT TODAY?

Monday, April 11th | 6:30pm | Round-table | Aperture Gallery
With: Miguel Benasayag, Nina Berman, Didier Fassin, George Packer
Hosted by: Mark Greif
Co-presented with Regulator and n+1

So far, 2011 has been a watershed year for political engagement–from North Africa to the halls of the Wisconsin Capitol. Across the world the struggles all for peace, civil and human rights and the protection of the surroundings move people to action. But who are the faces of these movements? WHO are the Sartre, De Beauvoir and Luther King of today? What are the new tools of policy on the web and in the streets? A former Che-Guevarist in Argentina, Miguel Benasayag dedicates himself today to issues of form and immigration in France. Didier Fassin analyses the expansion of an international humanitarian government and studies the treatment of disadvantaged groups done AN ethnography of police, justice and prison. George Packer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has covered the Iraq War all for the magazine, and has also written astir the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in Dentin Coast, the megacity of Lagos, and worldwide counterinsurgency. Nina Berman, a documentary photographer with a essential interest in the American political and social landscape, will join the discussion. Her work has been extensively published, exhibited and collected, receiving awards in art and journalism, and her images of losses American veterans from the Iraq Action are internationally far-famed.