Graduate Student Talk: Ghida Anouti

MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street, Building E15, Cambridge, MA 02139

Join Ghida Anouti, a Master of Science candidate in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT for a conversation around Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us.Ghida Anouti will discuss her own work in context of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s practice. Her research exploring sonic urbanism, archiving, para-fictions, and dialectical image-making speaks to Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s invocation of the archival multitude and their employment of audiovisual archives. Examining the generative potential of fragmentation, the artists use performance as a form of resistance to power structures with an acute sensitivity to the matrix of images and sounds disseminated online.This will be a hybrid event with a live video that can be streamed here at 5:30 PM.About the SpeakerGhida Anouti is a second-year graduate student in the SMArchS Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. She is interested in narrative-building, visual culture, and acoustemology in relation to the production, reception, and consumption of multisensorial media. Her research at MIT focuses on acoustic violence, films as archives of war, and the influence of Islamic philosophy on experimental videomaking during and post-Civil War Lebanon. Through close readings of audiovisual material, she unravels latent philosophies and distills provocations that have percolated in the Arab world for so long. Prior to her candidature at MIT, Ghida obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut.