{"id":14428,"date":"2024-02-12T20:29:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T01:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=14428"},"modified":"2024-04-15T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T14:31:12","slug":"asad-raza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/asad-raza\/","title":{"rendered":"Asad Raza"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_268\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14428-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2024\/AsudRuza.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2024\/AsudRuza.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2024\/AsudRuza.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14431 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/raza_DSCF9570.jpg?resize=308%2C411&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/raza_DSCF9570-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/raza_DSCF9570-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/raza_DSCF9570-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/raza_DSCF9570-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/raza_DSCF9570-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C928&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/raza_DSCF9570-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1424&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/raza_DSCF9570-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/raza_DSCF9570-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/>Asad Raza (born in Buffalo, USA) creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portikus.de\/en\/exhibitions\/228_diversion\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diversion<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, first shown at Kunsthalle Portikus in 2022, diverted a river through the gallery. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absorption<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in which cultivators create artificial soil, was the 34th Kaldor Public Art Project in Sydney (2019), later shown at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020) and Ruhrtriennale (2021). In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Untitled (plot for dialogue)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2017), visitors played tennis in a sixteenth-century church in Milan. Root sequence. Mother tongue, at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, combines twenty-six trees, caretakers and objects. Schema for a school was an experimental school at the 2015 Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennial. Raza premiered the feature <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minor History<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019). Other projects take intimate settings: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bedroom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the 2018 Lahore Biennale; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Home Show<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2015) at his apartment in New York, where Raza asked artists to intervene in his life; and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life to come<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2019) at Metro Pictures, featuring participatory works and Shaker dance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Hans Ulrich Obrist, Raza curates exhibitions inspired by \u00c9douard Glissant, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mondialit\u00e9<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Villa Empain, Brussels), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trembling Thinking<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Americas Society, New York), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where the Oceans Meet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (MDC Museum of Art and Design, Miami), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This language which is every stone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (IMA, Brisbane). Raza will serve as Artistic Director of the upcoming FRONT 2025: Cleveland Triennial of Contemporary Art. Of Pakistani background, Raza studied literature and filmmaking at Johns Hopkins and NYU.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14432\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14432 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res.jpeg?resize=696%2C392&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res-scaled.jpeg?resize=696%2C392&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res-scaled.jpeg?resize=1068%2C601&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res-scaled.jpeg?resize=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_ge_aquarelle_05_hi-res-scaled.jpeg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Ge, Asad Raza, 2020. Commissioned for The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Galleries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oX16kvVGS0M?si=NxWFJDMqaRBYClRf\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ge, Asad Raza, 2020. Commissioned for The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish: The Understory of the Understory, Serpentine Galleries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14433\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14433 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan.jpg?resize=696%2C466&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1028&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1370&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C466&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C715&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C1285&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/asad-raza_untitled-plot-for-dialogue_112017_converso_milan-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asad Raza, Untitled (plot for dialogue), 2017, CONVERSO, Milan Photo Credit: Andrea Rossetti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2024\/AsudRuza.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listAsad Raza (born in Buffalo, USA) creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience. 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