Tame the Wilderness? (2020)
Tame the Wilderness? (2020) is a hot flash, arriving after the season, in retrospect, and in astonishment that things remain as uncertain as ever. Preview and download the PDF here. Prints in risograph available at Printed Matter, inc. and Art Jameel. Tame the Wilderness? is a communal achievement put together in conversation and collaboration with artists in New York and nearby in the spring and summer of 2020.
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Mirene Arsanios, Nadia Ayari, Regine Basha, Isak Berbic, Coleman Collins, Annabel Daou, Shannon Davis, Jeremy Dennis, Stephanie Dinkins, Yara El-Sherbini + Naeem Mohaiemen, Amal Issa, Sahra Motalebi, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Ian Alan Paul, Carl Pope and Karen Pope, Uzma Z. Rizvi, Dread Scott
Dread Scott’s tabloid-sized risograph poster included with Tame the Wilderness?
Preview and download the PDF here. Printed copies are available at Printed Matter, inc. and Art Jameel.
Isak Berbic
From the Life of Engineer D.M.
Opening Friday, November 8th, 2013. 7-9pm
49B Studios, 49 Bogart, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Brief Histories is pleased to present Isak Berbic: The Arabian Gulf Chapter, a solo exhibition from his ongoing series, From the Life of Engineer D.M.
Isak Berbic works with photography, moving image and performance. His recent projects reimagine social narratives to unearth contested histories, while investigating ideas around photographic representation, politics, geographies, economies, ecologies, archaeologies, exchange, and transformation. He has has exhibited internationally including the Havana Biennial 2019, Marrakech Biennial 2016, BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn 2014, Helsinki Photomedia 2014, Dojima Biennale 2008, Singapore Biennale 2008. Isak is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
Xaytun Ennasr
New City Afternoon paintings and VR
Sunday, November 13, 2016. 5-8 pm
35 Claver Place No. 3, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Xaytun Ennasr is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist and designer. Their work, which includes videogames, drawings, installations, and text, is focused on internationalist revolutionary organizing .
They are a founding member of T’awoneyah / تعاونية , an artist cooperative dedicated to enhancing the working conditions of cultural producers through pooling of resources, collective bargaining, and mutual aid.
Institutions which exhibited Xaytun’s work include Darat Al Funun (Amman), Alt Space Loop (Seoul), Sursock Museum (Beirut), Brief Histories (New York), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut), Babycastles (New York), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and the Arab American University (Jenin).
Nebojsa Seric-Shoba
Returns from retirement with a Gowanus Canal Goldfish
Sunday October 23rd, 2016. 3-6pm
35 Claver Place No. 3, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Born in Sarajevo in 1968, Shoba studied at the School of Applied Arts from 1983-1987, then Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 – 1992. In 1999 he moved to Amsterdam to attend Rijksakademie, an international two-year artist residency and studio program. Shoba has exhibited in museums and art venues worldwide, including Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, France; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria ; Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany; KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Germany; De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Creative Time, New York City; Exit Art, New York City, Dumbo Arts Center, New York City; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; The 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, and P.S.1/MoMA, New York City; Manifesta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Casino Luxembourg — Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg. Shoba currently lives in New York City.
It is ok to be of a time
Friday November 8th, 2013. 7-9pm
49B Studios, 49 Bogart St., Brooklyn, NY, 11206
Brief Histories is pleased to present a performance and dinner organized by Isak Berbic and Fawz Kabra in collaboration with Rima Najdi.
Image: Projection of Trypps #5 (Dubai) (2008), 3 min, 16mm by Ben Russell on front facade of Satellite, Dubai, 2011.
Winter/Spring 2011 Screenings
Saturday, March 31st, 2011. 7.30pm
Satellite, Warehouse C-16, Al Serkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE.
Brief Histories presents a selection of moving image works showing at Satellite. Part of the exhibition Winter/Spring 2011, this screening brings together a selection of videos by artists and filmmakers Sarah Abu Abdallah, Sema Bekirovic, Jean Marie Casbarian, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Renate Ferro, Geissler/Sann, Khaled Hafez, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Damir Niksic, Michael Robinson, Ben Russell, and Deborah Stratman.
Winter/Spring 2011
Brief Histories: Sarah Abu Abdallah, Tarek Al Ghoussein, Hala Ali, Abbas Akhavan, Brandon Alvendia, Myron Beasley, Sema Bekirovic, Amir Berbic, Isak Berbic, Dunja Blazevic, Sofia Byttebier, Jean Marie Casbarian, Nada Dada, Karee Dahl, Vincent Dermody, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Renate Ferro, Zlatan Filipovic, Eric Fleischauer, Geissler/Sann, Khaled Hafez, Ibro Hasanovic, Samuel Jablon, Frans Jacobi, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Jeremy Bendik Keymer, Wes Kline, Vincent Leow, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Laura Marks, Timothy Murray, Damir Niksic, Brian O'Doherty, Melentie Pandilovski, Zoran Poposki, Colin Reaney, Michael Robinson, Ben Russell, Shirin Sabahi, Larissa Sansour, Nebojsa Shoba Seric, Edgar Serrano, LeRoy Stevens, Deborah Stratman, Pelin Tan, Ubik, Lantian Xie
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Deborah Stratman, Village Silenced, 2011
Brandon Alvendia, Tyranny of Distance, 2011
Edgar Serrano, Landscape, 2011
Sam Jablon, I May Lose You For A Second I'm Going In A Tunnel, 2011
Laura U. Marks, Enfoldment and Infinity, 2011
Larissa Sansour, Cairo Taxilogue, 2008
Kevin and Jennifer McCoy, Mussafah, 2011
Geissler/Sann, Fuck the War, 2011
Nebojsa Seric Shoba, Fear, 2011
Hala Ali, Wiki Leaks Cables, 2011
Shirin Sabahi, The Sleepers and the Wakers, 2011