"Kevork Mourad: Memory Gates"- Artist'sTalk

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Description

Using his signature style of spontaneous drawing and printmaking techniques, Kevork Mourad built Memory Gates, an immersive installation, on site in the Cantor Art Gallery in February 2021. The work, imagined as a series of doors and passageways that visitors can pass through, explores themes of cultural plurality and collective memory.

Artist Kevork Mourad gives a talk live on YouTube from the gallery in conjunction with the opening of his site-specific installation work "Memory Gates". The installation was on view at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery from March 4 through April 11, 2021.

Publication Date

3-4-2021

Duration

58:24 minutes

Keywords

Syria, Armenia, Visual Art, Printmaking, Memory, Architecture

Disciplines

Architecture | Art Practice | Near Eastern Languages and Societies | Printmaking | Theatre and Performance Studies

Comments

Kevork Mourad employs his technique of live drawing and animation in concert with musicians – developing a collaboration in which art and music harmonize with one another. Collaborators include Yo-Yo Ma, Kim Kashkashian, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Brooklyn Rider, The Knights, Perspectives Ensemble, Paola Prestini, and Kinan Azmeh and he has performed in many institutions, including The Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), The Art Institute of Chicago, The American Museum of Natural History, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, ElbPhilharmonie (Germany), Rhode Island School of Design, Nara Museum (Japan), Lincoln Center Atrium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Born in Qamishli, Syria, Mourad now lives and works in New York City. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts in Armenia. Mourad has been a resident teaching artist at Brandeis University, Harvard University, and Holy Cross (Worcester). He is the only visual artist member in Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and is featured in the film “Music of Strangers” (2016).

Recent commissions include Israel in Egypt, for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Sound of Stone to accompany the exhibition “Armenia!” for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Well Wish Ya, a dance performance piece with the OYO Dance Troupe in Namibia. His performance, Home Within, co-produced with clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, has toured the world. The 2016 recipient of the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Prize, his animated film 4 Acts for Syria made its 2019 premiere at the Stuttgart Animation Festival. He was recently asked by the Aga Khan Foundation to create a site-specific 20-foot drawing-sculpture called Seeing Through Babel, at London’s Ismaili Center, addressing the importance of diversity in our contemporary times.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ef4FCHJkE

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