Through the Speaker Series, CCS Bard brings distinguished artists, scholars, and curators to campus to present on their work. Speaker Series talks are held within Classroom 102 at CCS Bard. All talks are free and open to the public.
Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work looks at places and moments where social, political, and cultural structures take on visible forms, and spans video, installation, photography, performance, text and data. Long-term collaborations include the experimental archive Index of the Disappeared, with Chitra Ganesh, and the video series Performed Places, with choreographer Erin Kelly and composer Qasim Naqvi. Notable past exhibitions include solo projects for the Queens Museum of Art and Saint Louis Art Museum, commissions for Documenta 13, the Dhaka Art Summit and the Sharjah Biennials 9 and 10, and screenings at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Liverpool Biennial, Met Breuer, and MoMA. In 2018-19 her work will be presented by Exhibit320 in Delhi, Hollybush Gardens in London, the Casa Arabe in Cordoba, the Tretyakov Modern in Moscow, the Yinchuan Biennale in China, the Museum of the City of New York, EMPAC in Troy, and the Speed Museum in Louisville, among others. Texts have been published in Frieze, Foreign Policy, Ibraaz, Triple Canopy, and the readers Assuming Boycott, Critical Writing Ensembles, Dissonant Archives, Utopian Pulse, and Social Medium: Artists Writing 2000-2015. Ghani holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and has received a number of awards, grants and fellowships, most recently from the Center for Constitutional Rights. She teaches at Bennington College.