Pratt Manhattan Gallery / Blind Dates

Blind Dates: New Encounters from the Edges of a Former Empire

November 19, 2010 – February 12, 2011

Opening:
Thursday, November 18, 6-8 PM
With a performance of AH-HA by Nina Katchadourian and Ahmet Öğüt
Free and open to the public

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10011
Tuesday-Saturday 11-6, closed December 23-January 3.

co-curators Defne Ayas and Neery Melkonian

Participating artists, architects, dancers, scholars and cultural producers are:

Silva Ajemian and Aslihan Demirtaş

Karen Andreassian with Citizen Walker Sergey

Hrayr Anmahouni Eulmessekian with sound scholar Anahid Kassabian

Michael Blum and Damir Nikšić

Jean Marie Casbarian with historian Nazan Maksudyan

Özge Ersoy with Taline Toutounjian

Linda Ganjian and Elif Uras

Aram Jibilian with Aaron Mattocks as Arshile Gorky's ghost

Nina Katchadourian and Ahmet Öğüt

Karine Matsakian and Sona Abgarian

Stefanos Tsivopoulos with dancers Ursula Eagly, Carlos Fittante & Christopher Williams

Jalal Toufic with Selim S. Kuru as Ottoman translator

xurban_collective

www.pratt.edu/exhibitions
www.blinddatesproject.org