Tate Modern Symposium: "Politics of the Social in Contemporary Art"

Can art intervene in social relations? What are the implications of involving art and its audiences in an ethical problem? And how do such practices relate to art's social institutions? This symposium examines the turn towards participatory and collaborative art forms and the ethical questions that raises.

Artist and author Wafaa Bilal will speak at the symposium, followed by film screenings from all the day's speakers. 

More information to come. 

Gallery 101: Blown Up: Gaming and War presents works by three artists from different geopolitical positions in the distribution of war—Germany, Iraq, and the Palestinian diaspora—who improvise strategies of engagement with the ever accelerating relationship between videos games and war.

In The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi , Wafaa Bilal has modified a game that has been used in the ideological component of the battle between the American military and Al Qaeda.

The show will run from January 18th to March 2nd, at Gallery 101 (address below)

301 1/2 Bank Street, Ottawa, Canada

Curator : Vicky Moufawad-Paul

The seventh edition of Art Dubai takes place March 20-23, 2013, at Madinat Jumeirah. Besides the gallery halls, the fair's extensive programme will include commissioned projects and performances, artists' and curators' residencies, educational workshops, the unveiling of works by the winners of the annual Abraaj Group Art Prize and the critically acclaimed Global Art Forum.

More details to come about Artist Wafaa Bilal's exibit. 

Artist and author Wafaa Bilal will speak at the Literary/Critical Symposium at Georgetown University.

The symposium will take place April 2nd-3rd, at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, More details to come. 

Artist and author Wafaa Bilal will be a guest lecturer at the University of Arizona. The lecture will be held April 4, 5:30 pm, in the Center for Creative Photography (address below).

#108 E. Speedway Blvd and N. Park Ave

Tuscon, Arizona

Artist and author Wafaa Bilal will be a guest lecture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. The lecture will be held April 11, 7:15 pm. More details about the location to come. 
 

The New School: The Public Private will be the first New York exhibition of contemporary art to explore the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm.

Artist and author Wafaa Bilal's piece, 3rdi, will be featured among other pieces. 

The show will run February 7th-April 17th, at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (address below). 

2 West 13th Street

New York City, NY

Curator: Christiane Paul

The Ashes Series depicts the suffering of war not through human displays of emotion, but rather through the absence of human life in once occupied homes. Artist and author Wafaa Bilal investigates the impact of the destruction of these private, domestic spaces in war and media images of such destruction. 

The exibition will run April 5th-26th, at the David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center (address below). More details forthcoming. 

64 College St.

Providence, Rhode Island

Related Symposium, April 5 

Curator: Ian Alden Russell