Nour Mobarak joins artist and filmmaker Basma Alsharif for an online conversation focused on personal history and geopolitics. They will share short films by Alsharif and discuss how the nebulous material of memory can be formed into artworks.

Nour Mobarak reflects upon the thought processes that produce language and generate alternative systems of knowledge, from poetics to mushrooms. Her interdisciplinary practice focuses on failure and decay, the positive presence of negation, and rhizomatic forms of intelligence to destabilize traditional conceptions of mastery and dominance in society. Her work is inextricably entwined with her own history and inner monologue.

Basma Alsharif is an artist and filmmaker born to Palestinian parents. Raised in France and then the U.S., she has lived and worked nomadically since receiving her MFA in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago.