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Maya Escobar

Conceptual Identity Artist

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Berlin's Eruv at the 2009 Conney Conference on Jewish Art

I will be presenting Berlin's Eruv at the 2009 Conney Conference: Performing Histories, Inscribing Jewishness at University of Wisconsin Madison.Berlin’s Eruv is a conceptual project that addresses the assumed non-presence of Jews in Germany. Berlin does not actually have an eruv. There is however, an active Jewish community, one that is frequently overshadowed by the city's prominent monuments and memorials commemorating Jewish life (death). Berlin's Eruv weaves together voices from Berlin's Jewish community in an attempt to construct a metaphorical eruv representative of a living Jewish Community. Just as the eruv exists in the minds of the people who abide by it, Berlin’s Eruv manifests itself through the conversations surrounding the idea of the piece.*****I will be showing Berlin's Eruv at 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition, opening May 8th at the Kemper Art Museum.

tags: berlin, birthright, conceptual art, conney conference, contemporary art, diaspora, erubin, eruv, eruvin, frum, germany, halacha, hyperlinks, installation, intertextual, ipod, jewish artist, jewish berlin, Jewish Life in America, judasim, kemper art museum, Matisyahu, moshe or, postcard, space, st- louis, the st lou jew, Thesis Exhibition, university of wisconsin madison, video projection, Washington University in St- Louis, wustl, yeshivish, YouTube
categories: Art, berlin's eruv, contmporary art, exhibition, identity, Judaism, Maya Escobar, MFA, new media art, psychogeography
Wednesday 04.15.09
Posted by maya escobar
 

Negotiating Diaspora Identities Through New Media

Negotiating Diaspora Identities Through New MediaJoin PhD Anthropology Candidate Eric Repice and MFA Candidate Maya Escobar in a brown bag lunch discussion concerning transnational, transcultural, and hybrid negotiations of identity through new media.How do these discussions vary between our fields?IG-RepiceEric Repicefor more information on Eric Repice visit http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~esrepice/homefor more information on Maya Escobar visit http://mayaescobar.com[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3li_mT--f-A][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GDmDcSH4g][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whLYM9o946w][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz2fhmRzCOA][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14bv0-dzMIc][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNAxEUEE43Y]

tags: Acciones Plásticas, artist, arts, be wife, border, collaboration, courtney love, diaspora, duc, eric-repice, facebook, Heeb, hybrid, hybridity, interdisciplinary, internet, Jewish, jewish girls, Jewish Life in America, jewish women, jewy, kevin coval, latina role model, loren well, margin, myspace, place, remake, remix, sarah silverman, shtreimel, social networking, space, st- louis, stl, tck, the club, transnational, wash u, Washington University in St- Louis, workshop, y love, yitz
categories: art-education, identity, Judaism, Maya Escobar, new media, news, YouTube
Wednesday 01.28.09
Posted by maya escobar