Q&A

Alfredo

Jaar

SCAD

speaker

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gadfly

on

recuperating

the

power

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images

The Savannah College of Art & Design welcomes internationally renowned Chilean artist, filmmaker and architect Alfredo Jaar this month as the 2014 SCAD deFINE ART honoree and keynote speaker.

The MacArthur- and Guggenheim-award recipient’s numerous installations and large-scale public interventions are ethically motivated, illuminating the multiple faces of political imbalance, military conflict and human rights violations. Jaar has made work addressing the 1994 Rwandan holocaust, the Mexico-US border conflict and the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, as well as the 1978 Nicaraguan Revolution, which is the subject of his upcoming installation Shadows. Its world premiere is at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah on February 18.