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As a (slave-descended) black and (originally-Palestinian) Jordanian woman, Nadia Armouti believes in love’s
immense potential to transform the world for the better. To that end, she acts as
a multi-disciplinary artist and a researcher, working through people to heal
the past, present, and future wounds of enlightenment.
Armouti’s practice is grounded in love-driven propositional futurisms native to a past-and-present where we have always already de-colonized, de-rationalized, and de-capitalized. Through her work, she asks and answers the question:
How would things be different if we had always thought of love as an ethic--a verb that demands discipline--and committed ourselves to becoming better at it?
Drawing on a wealth of radical thinkers and eminent writers from bell hooks, Sylvia Wynter, and Black Quantum Futurism, to Joseph Beuys, James Bridle, and Diann Bauer, Armouti’s work lives as a social sculpture within a (de-colonized) parallel present where we have always loved better. Through her work, she invites viewers to embody this world, to re-enact it, and to join in the unfolding of a present shaped by a (non-patriarchal) love ethic.
Armouti holds a BA in Government from Harvard University and recently earned her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she served as Student Orator. Listen to her speech below.
Armouti’s practice is grounded in love-driven propositional futurisms native to a past-and-present where we have always already de-colonized, de-rationalized, and de-capitalized. Through her work, she asks and answers the question:
How would things be different if we had always thought of love as an ethic--a verb that demands discipline--and committed ourselves to becoming better at it?
Drawing on a wealth of radical thinkers and eminent writers from bell hooks, Sylvia Wynter, and Black Quantum Futurism, to Joseph Beuys, James Bridle, and Diann Bauer, Armouti’s work lives as a social sculpture within a (de-colonized) parallel present where we have always loved better. Through her work, she invites viewers to embody this world, to re-enact it, and to join in the unfolding of a present shaped by a (non-patriarchal) love ethic.
Armouti holds a BA in Government from Harvard University and recently earned her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she served as Student Orator. Listen to her speech below.