A piece of digital theater about connecting with family at a distance prompts a reckoning with the guilt of emigration.
Read MoreRamsey Faragallah (left) and Yousof Sultani (right) in This Is Who I Am. Photo: PlayCo/Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
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Still from Phantom Thread (2017), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Vicky Krieps and Daniel Day-Lewis
One Day at a Time #12: Phantom Threads
On the art and ritual of garment making,
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Edited image of Greek refugees leaving Smyrna, 1922.
One Day at a Time #10: A Genealogy of Migration
in essay, photography, memory, politics
When a news photograph meets a precious moment of family history.
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View of my living room ceiling
One Day at a Time #7: An Unexpected Contribution in the New York Times
in observation, essay
An unexpected surprise.
Read MoreOne Day at a Time #3: Bathroom Ruminations
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I had just taken a shower, and was looking for a nail clipper in the bathroom cupboard.
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Bouchra Khalili. The Mapping Journey Project. 2008–11. Eight-channel video (color, sound), duration variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty First Century, 2014. © 2016 Bouchra Khalili. Courtesy of the artist.
Essay for MoMA post: Documenting Migration in Contemporary Art
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How to raise awareness of the most recent refugee crisis in the Mediterranean in a way that does not spectacularize human suffering? Beginning with Bouchra Khalili's The Mapping Journey Project, this essay addresses how the present crisis has manifested as image and has made its way, across a variety of methodological and ethical approaches, into works of art.
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