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Graffiti & The Egyptian Revolution: A Talk with Egyptian Street Artists & Revolutionaries

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Friday, October 10th 2014

7:30 pm

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The streets of Egypt are covered in revolutionary graffiti, exclaiming ideas of protest and cultural change, honoring the martyrs who had died at the hands of the police and military, and poking fun at the rulers of the Egyptian state. Join Egyptian artists Hady Kamar and Ganzeer for a talk on the role of street art in the lead-up to the 2011 Egyptian rveolution, as well as its role during and after the initial revolt. Ganzeer's work is featured in the book "Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution," which we carry in the store.

Hady Kamar (b. 1984) is an artist from Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2008 Hady moved to Cairo, Egypt where he worked in various participatory art practices. In addition, Hady established a screen printing workshop and co-founded and operated Nile Sunset Annex, a self-funded, artist-run space which occupies a room in a flat in Garden City, Cairo. It offers local and international artists a space to realise month-long exhibitions, and runs a sporadic parallel program of publications and discussions. Hady is now back in Jersey and shifting focus to sonic arts as a medium for art and activism.

Ganzeer is the pseudonym of an Egyptian artist. He is not an author, comic artist, installation artist, painter, speaker, street artist, or videographer, though he has assumed these roles in a number of places around the world. His art has been shown in Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Jordan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, and the United States, as well as in myriad Cairo galleries. Art in America has referred to Ganzeer’s work as “New Realism,” and the Huffington Post ranked him among the “25 Street Artists from Around the World who are Shaking Up Public Art,” but Ganzeer rejects both labels. He regards Bidoun magazine’s description of him as a “contingency artist” as probably the most accurate. More information about his work is available at ganzeer.com

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