2019-09-19

#rpDetroit Speaker Nora Al-Badri: The urgency of socially engaged art

Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary media artist with a German-Iraqi background from Berlin. She graduated in political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Currently she is the first artist-in-residence at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and its Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+).

What message do you want to share at re:publica Detroit?
Art these days can be a practice of truth-making beyond aesthetic gestures. And I truly believe socially engaged art is more necessary than ever.

In one word, what does access mean to you?
Democracy.

What are you looking forward to most at re:publica Detroit?
First of all to learn about Detroit and its scene and to see how we can connect our practices and experiences across continents and cities.

Here you can find Nora Al-Badris' session.