Nadia will participate the Open Set 2018 Fluid Rhythms summer school as an expert and lead the workshop "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" on 15, 16 and 17th of August.
Nadia Al Issa / Christidi
artist & writer
Nadia Al Issa / Christidi is a Syrian, Palestinian, and Greek researcher, writer, and arts practitioner based in Cambridge, MA. She has exhibited Untitled (8 km – A Tribute to Danis Tanović) (2011) in Beirut Art Center’s Exposure 2011 and B is for Botany as I is for Identity and Cultivating Exile (2015) in Apricots from Damascus at SALT Galata, Istanbul and Outside the Sentence There was a City at SALT Ulus, Ankara. Nadia holds a BA in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania (2006) and an MA in Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research, New York (2015). She is currently a PhD student in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. While previously focused on nationalism, identity, and geo-politically contested spaces, her present work looks at the politicization of nature and the naturalization of politics.