Residency

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Dullah 69 (2010)
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By Faisal Abdu’Allah

The Arts Institute welcomes British visual and performance artist Faisal Abdu'Allah as the Spring 2013 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence. Faisal Abdu’Allah is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work primarily evolves from the interface of photography, printed media, film, installation, and performance. Abdu’Allah’s iconographic images of power, race, masculinity, violence, and faith challenge the values and ideologies we attach to those images and interrogate the historic and cultural contexts in which they originate.

Fauhaus

While in residence, Faisal Abdu’Allah is teaching “FauHaus: Bodies, Minds, Senses, and the Arts” with Art History Professor Henry Drewal. This art laboratory is composed of student practitioners from visual arts, performance, art history, and visual culture. Referencing the legendary Bauhaus—a space where multiple disciplines were encouraged to flourish side by side—FauHaus (F for Faisal, H for Henry, Haus for UW-Madison) is grounded in Drewal’s theory of "sensiotics," which considers the crucial role of the senses in understanding arts and culture.

FauHaus explores the sensory and cognitive engagements of the human body-mind over fifteen weeks. A roster of internationally-renowned visitors, including award-winning artists and actors, esteemed scholars, and museum curators from world-class institutions, bring diverse viewpoints to the FauHaus seminar and beyond through a series free public presentations.

Faisal Abdu’Allah’s residency is hosted by the Department of Art History and cosponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies, the Art Department, the Department of Communication Arts--Film, the Dance Department, the Design Studies Department, the Theatre and Drama Department, and the Center for Visual Cultures.