Lisa Diane Wedgeworth
Visiting Artist
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Visiting Scholar
Profile
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is Professor of Modern Culture and Media in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University.
Her recent books include Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019), Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography (Leuven University Press and Cornell University Press, 2013), From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 (Pluto Press, 2011), Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012), and The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008), and The One State Condition: Occupation and Democracy between the Sea and the River, co-authored with Adi Ophir (Stanford University Press, 2012).
She is Curator of the archive “Act of State 1967-2007” ( Centre Pompidou, 2016), Enough! The Natural Violence of the New World Order (F/Stop festival, Leipzig, 2016), “The Natural History of Rape,” Pembroke Hall, Brown University, “The Body Politic” [in Really Useful Knowledge, curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW], Reina Sofia, Madrid; When The Body Politic Ceases To Be An Idea, Exhibition Room – Manifesta Journal Around Curatorial Practices No 16 (folded format in Hebrew, MOBY, 2013), Potential History (2012, Stuk / Artefact, Louven), Untaken Photographs (2010, Igor Zabel Award,The Moderna galerija, Lubliana; Zochrot, Tel Aviv), Architecture of Destruction (Zochrot, Tel Aviv), Everything Could Be Seen (Um El Fahem Gallery of Art).
She is the director of the documentary films CIVIL ALLIANCES, PALESTINE 47-48 (2012), I ALSO DWELL AMONG YOUR OWN PEOPLE: CONVERSATIONS WITH ASMI BISHARA (2004),and THE FOOD CHAIN (2004).