The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts invites you to an evening conversation between our current Research Season Artist, Hiwa K, and artist + editor Anton Vidokle. 

Over the past two decades, Hiwa K (b. 1975, Kurdistan-Iraq) has developed a practice and body of work that reflects on the geopolitical conditions of Kurdistan (a country existing within the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran) and the Kurdish diaspora at large. Privileging the collective over the singular, his artworks manifest through informal peer-to-peer studies and performative actions. Informed by anecdotes, gossip, jokes, family folklore, and stories, K’s work subverts dominant narratives and elevates the voices of those who experience exile and migration He has received numerous awards, including the Arnold Bode Prize, and the Schering Stiftung Art Award, and the Hector Prize.

Anton Vidokle is an artist and editor of e-flux journal. He was born in Moscow and lives in New York and Berlin. Vidokle’s work has been exhibited internationally at Documenta 13 and the 56th Venice Biennale. Vidokle’s films have been presented at Bergen Assembly, Shanghai Biennale, Berlinale International Film Festival, Forum Expanded, Gwangju Biennale, Center Pompidou, Tate Modern, Garage Museum, Istanbul Biennial, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Tensta Konsthall, Blaffer Art Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Lincoln Center, MMCA Seoul, the Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, and others. He served as chief curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema, and in 2024 he was appointed artistic director for the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale.

6:00-8:00 PM

This event is not taking place inside the Wattis Gallery.