The Textwork of Yael Kanarek: Visualizing Language

CU’s Program in Jewish Studies and the CU Art Museum present New York artist, Yael Kanarek for a unique performance that examines how language and numbers create an emotional landscape. Inspired by her own upbringing in Israel, Kanarek draws from the multilingual landscape of her childhood working with Hebrew, Arabic and English words in her large-scale installation, Textwork, currently on display at the CU Art Museum.

 

Kanarek is interested in how languages shape space and how their presence in space signifies cultural territory and sovereignty. Next to one another, English, Hebrew and Arabic generate a charged, nervous space to navigate. Her performance on November 9 @ 7PM in the Visual Arts Complex Auditorium 1B20, will examine her use of formalistic tools - configuration, shape, and shadow – to construct dynamic, typographic fields. Guests are encouraged to view her piece, Textwork, on display in the CU Art Museum Gallery prior to her performance.

 

For free tickets, please RSVP to http://www.jewishmovers.org/classes/43