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Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

is an artist, poet, and researcher whose work explores the interplay between aesthetic and political valences in the public domain. Solo/group exhibitions, performances, and expanded publications include Nottingham Contemporary, Pioneer Works, Parasol Unit, Serpentine Cinema, Framer Framed, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Art Dubai, New Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Sonic Acts, Triple Canopy, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, The Poetry Project, Women and Performance, The White Review, Art in America, The Literary Review, Asymptote, Circumference, among others. She was previously an artist-in-residence at Trélex Poetry Residency (France), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam/NY), Residency Unlimited (U.S.A.), Aftab Committee (U.S.A.), Wysing Arts Centre (U.K), Industry Lab (U.S.A.), Delfina Foundation (U.K.), Darat al Funun (Jordan), Mansion (Lebanon), Brooklyn Public Library (U.S.A.), among others. She completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Film & Visual Studies at Harvard University and an M.F.A. in Film/Video at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and held a postdoctoral Fulbright and Visiting Professorship at Birzeit University. She was a Lecturer at New York University and Northeastern University from 2019 to 2021; at Harvard University from 2012 to 2017; and has served as visiting faculty/studio artist at Valand Academy, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Bard Microcollege, among others. Book publications include a translation of Waly Salomão’s Algaravias: Echo Chamber (Ugly Duckling Presse), nominated for a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; The Distancing Effect (BlazeVOX); and Bio (Inventory Press). Artist books/chapbooks include Apparent Horizon 2 (Bonington Gallery); Alphabet of an Unknown City (Belladonna*), Secret Catalan Poem (The Elephants), Mohammad Wikipedia Book (Recess), and Dictionary of Night, co-authored with Mirene Arsanios (Ashkal Alwan). She was editor at The New Inquiry between 2012 and 2017, and is author of the open text South/South. She founded Oil Research Group (ORG) as a one-woman artist collective exploring the relationship between oil and data. She lives and works in New York.

South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Personification

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 15, 2021
A national gas-lighting project. That we didn’t see what we saw with our own eyes.
South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Reprieve

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 15, 2021
My greatest resentment is how little they prepare you for becoming a woman
South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Dissimulation

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 11, 2021
This is how you demobilize a cause: by framing ethical boundaries as negotiations
South/South

Ramadan Diaries: Analysis

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 5, 2021
"You promised me not to break your promise anymore, it is I, dear, who have caused this break." —"All of Asia is indefinitely on hold."
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Thirty-One

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 30, 2019
We can’t seem to grasp the patience it takes for a tree to grow
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Nine

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 20, 2019
She is the kind of person who understands that nothing that can flow needs to be forced
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Seven

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 14, 2019
The battle over email is one over which I hold a false sense of equilibrium
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Five

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 11, 2019
I am the algorithm's targeted audience for work-mode motivational posters
South/South

Secret Catalan Poem is Out

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 6, 2019
From enactment to multi-authored text to translation to public performance to published volume
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Three

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 6, 2019
Withholding certain things from entering your body and mind and in doing so creating psychic real estate
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJune 3, 2019
Hunger can feel like a prolonged period of waiting, thirst feels like giving up
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Eighteen

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 31, 2019
No subject should be too low for a painting or a poem
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Eleven

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 30, 2019
My body is hungry—desperate—for sleep. O sleep!
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Nine

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 29, 2019
My brain, aware of the caffeine and calories it simply isn't getting, foments independent declarations
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Seven

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 27, 2019
The nation-state, where everything is true and nothing hurts
South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Six

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 23, 2019
No one appears to come out and say that the three-meal-a-day diet is a historical accompaniment of capitalism

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