Crossing Borders Workshop Keynote: “Making Contemporary Art in Yiddishland.”

About the keynote lecture: Artist Yevgeniy Fiks will discuss his concept of Yiddish as a “cosmic” language, capable of connecting heaven and earth, everyday life and fantastic utopia, Jewish and global culture. He will reflect on the uniqueness of Yiddish culture as a bridge capable of uniting traditional ethnicity with universal human ideals, the past with the present and the cosmic future, and analyze the special place of Yiddish in contemporary avant-garde art.

This event is co-sponsored with the Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series at the School of Art and is the public component of the “Crossing Borders: Jewish Art, Literature, and Migration in the Americas" workshop. For more information about the workshop, contact: Chelsea Haines at [email protected]. To attend the keynote, please register here.

About Yevgeniy Fiks: Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow in 1972 and has been living and working in New York since 1994. Fiks has produced many projects on the subject of the Post-Soviet dialog in the West, among them: “Lenin for Your Library?” in which he mailed V.I. Lenin’s text “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” to one hundred global corporations as a donation for their corporate libraries; “Communist Party USA,” a series of portraits of current members of Communist Party USA, painted from life in the Party’s national headquarters in New York City; and “Communist Guide to New York City,” a series of photographs of buildings and public places in New York City that are connected to the history of the American Communist movement.