Conceived in conversation with Algerian-French artist Kader Attia, this academic workshop engages with many primary themes of Attia’s work, reflecting on trauma and loss, war and colonization, madness and possession, and, the contemporary, virtual form of haunting. It takes as its point of departure Attia’s ideas about repair, which is always entangled with the irreparable, and made present in the materiality of wounds and scars as well as the immaterial, phantom rifts that haunt the lives of individuals and societies. Join us to explore the capacity of the artistic process to produce a shift in the experience of reality, carrying us beyond the boundaries of the visible and the invisible, the living and the dead, to produce uncanny and unexpected angles from which to feel, think, and see. 

The workshop unfolds across five different panels over the course of the day. Along with the artist, participants include Stefania Pandolfo, Momar Guèye, Jalil Bennani, David Marriott, Soraya Tlatli, Natalia Brizuela, Anneka Lenssen, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Emily Ng, Peter Skafish, and others.