It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq by Jeremy Deller, New Museum, New York, 11 Feb - 22 Mar

Exhibition Description:

New Museum and Creative Time will be presenting a new commission by Turner Prize winning British artist Jeremy Deller for the Three M Project. This project encourages public discussion of the history, present circumstances, and future of Iraq.

The exhibition will follow two formats, first through conversations with guest experts and witnesses at the New Museum from February 11 through March 22. It will then embark on a three-week cross-country tour where the artist and his team will park at various community sites in ten to fifteen cities between New York and Los Angeles to continue the conversation about Iraq on a national scale, and enable disparate audiences beyond the urban art world to experience the project.

Over the past ten years, Jeremy Deller has archived, examined, and often staged demonstrations, exhibitions, historical reconstructions, parades, and concerts as a way to both celebrate and critically examine them as forms of social action. His work focuses on cultural history--how it is made, recorded, manipulated, and remembered.

Description:

Image: Courtesy the artist and the New Museum.

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