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Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

is an artist, poet, and cultural technologist 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, Brooklyn Public Library, among others. She has served as artist-in-residence at Trélex Poetry Residency (France), Sonic Acts (Netherlands), Residency Unlimited (U.S.A.), Wysing Arts Centre (U.K), Industry Lab (U.S.A.), Delfina Foundation (U.K.), Darat al Funun (Jordan), 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 include Apparent Horizon 2 (Bonington Gallery); Alphabet of an Unknown City (Belladonna*), Secret Catalan Poem (The Elephants), Mohammad Wikipedia Book (Recess), Dictionary of Night, co-authored with Mirene Arsanios (Ashkal Alwan), and Oil News 1989-2020, co-authored with Sam Lavigne (Sonic Acts). Her translation of Salomão’s Border Fare is forthcoming in 2024 (World Poetry Books). She is Editor Emeritus of The New Inquiry, where she previously served as Editor-at-Large. She founded South/South, cited as "one to watch" by the Los Angeles Times, and authored 500+ posts independently between 2009-2012 and at TNI between 2012-2023. She is the founder and principal of Oil Research Group (ORG), a one-woman collective exploring coterminous oil and data environments at the heart of "data is the new oil." ORG regularly collaborates with artists, scientists, economists, indigenous environmentalists, and host art institutions. She lives and works in New York.

South/South

Ramadan Diaries, Day Eleven

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 30, 2019
My body is hungry—desperate—for sleep. O sleep!
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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
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Ramadan Diaries, Day Seven

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 27, 2019
The nation-state, where everything is true and nothing hurts
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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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Ramadan Diaries, Day Four

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 21, 2019
I use the song until it evaporates, tucking it away for another month, another year, where I’ll feed on it again
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Ramadan Diaries, Day Two

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 16, 2019
FIELD DAY BROTH VEGETABLE LOW SOD 1.77
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Ramadan Diaries, Day One

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 15, 2019
I seem to have lost the ability to multitask
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Five Questions with Christopher Rey Pérez

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviAugust 3, 2018
Salivary glands allow us to produce enough saliva to spit, which can be a defense mechanism against the dangers of poisoning, an expression of outrage, a sexual practice, even lubricant
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Two Poems by Paulo Leminski

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviJuly 27, 2018
[An outlaw is...]
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Grapefruit Your Man

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMay 22, 2018
See to it that no parts of him go wasted
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Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviApril 2, 2018
I dwell frequently on the notion that the male body expands and the female body contracts in public space
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Alphabet of an Unknown City (A-M)

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMarch 31, 2018
It’s beginning to be impossible to write about how impossible it is to write about love
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Secret Catalan Poem

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMarch 29, 2018
The dark, heavy energy of paranoia, fear, and defense; the protective nature of shelter, housing, and land re-appropriation
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Canceled Message (Part Three)

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMarch 16, 2018
How to erase yourself (almost) completely
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Routine Repairs & Earth & Dust

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviMarch 1, 2018
This is that old N.Y. dread—the frenetic running, the bleak refrigerator contents, no TIME for deep thinking or seeing friends, et. etc.—& that dread hasn’t died down yet.
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#upcoming

By Maryam Monalisa GharaviNovember 24, 2017
Upcoming solo and collaborative events in the U.K.

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