Tali Keren. Vulnerable Power

States of Control: Who is In Control?
Online debates about the future of choice and fair elections

Curated by Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits /Creative Association of Curators TOK
Program of the Weisman Art Museum
November 3, 2020
Tali Keren. Vulnerable Power

This moment of crisis is also a moment for radical change. What role can an artist play in the struggle for new equitable governing and cultural institutions? In her presentation, Tali Keren will share her ongoing research on the construction of state-power, settler-colonial violence, and ideology, as she works with and against mechanisms of propaganda. Her immersive, participatory work and installations raise questions about the intersection of religion, politics, and militarization and are often the result of on-site research and documentation. Collaboration is a core part of her practice, and she often works with artists, students, researchers, and activists.

Tali Keren is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in New York City. Her performances, videos, and installations focus on the formation of violence, ideology, and political identity. Keren’s recent solo exhibitions include The Great Seal at Eyebeam (New York) and the Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv); and Heat Signature at Ludlow 38-MINI Goethe Institute (New York). Keren’s first U.S. museum solo exhibition is scheduled for 2021 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). Her work has been exhibited and performed at Anthology Film Archives (New York); the Museum of the Moving Image (New York); the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); the Tel Aviv Museum (Tel Aviv); Socrates Sculpture Park (New York); the Jewish Museum (New York); Museums Quartier (Vienna); Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen); the Israeli Center for Digital Art (Holon); The Goethe Institute (New York); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; and on the screen of New York City’s Times Square. Keren received her BFA in 2009 from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and earned an MFA from Columbia University, in New York, in 2016. She was an artist in residence at ISCP, the NARS Foundation, and BRICworkspace, New York, and Artport Tel Aviv. She has taught in public schools throughout New York City with Studio in a School and she has worked as a museum educator both at MoMA’s Museum and Access program and at the Jewish Museum.

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