Brief Histories: Icey Cream Projects and the launch of Tame the Wilderness?
Fawz Kabra, Isak Berbic & Nur Kabra Berbic
Friday, August 28, 2020
4:00 - 6:00pm
onsite at 102 Forsyth (outside the gallery) & online via Instagram Live @signssymbols
As part of artists & allies III, Brief Histories presents Icey Cream Projects and the launch of Tame the Wilderness?, a happening organized by Fawz Kabra, Isak Berbic and Nur Kabra Berbic at signs and symbols.
Brief Histories visits signs and symbols with Icey Cream Projects, an ice cream vending bicycle wagon and distribution platform where their spring/summer 2020 zine issue titled Tame the Wilderness? will be launched by Nur, who will deliver the project's mission. Visit with a mask outside 102 Forsyth or online on Instagram Live. For more information on the project, visit briefhistories.art.
fawz kabra is a curator and writer living in Brooklyn. She has organized exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; Bric Arts and Media House, Brooklyn; and Art Dubai. She was Co-Director of Global Art Forum 13, Dubai and former Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Abu Dhabi Project, New York. Fawz edited the exhibition reader No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects (CCS / Barjeel / RAM 2017). Her writing and interviews appear in Ibraaz, Canvas, Ocula and Art Papers.
isak berbic works with photography, moving image and performance. His recent projects reimagine social narratives to unearth contested histories, while investigating ideas around photographic representation, geographies, economies, ecologies and transformation. He studied art at the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden and at University of Illinois at Chicago, where he completed his graduate studies. His recent exhibitions include Havana Biennial 2019, Marrakech Biennial 2016, BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn 2014, Helsinki Photomedia 2014, Dojima Biennale 2008 and Singapore Biennale 2008. Isak is currently based in Brooklyn and is Associate Professor of Art At Stony Brook University, NY.
nur kabra berbic (b. 2015 Brooklyn, NY) sometimes goes by Dr. Bunsen. He loves going to the beach, the color red and Ancient Egypt. Nur is an inventor and artist, who enjoys taking things apart and putting things together. He can be found in his neighborhood, Crown Heights, talking with his neighbors and riding his bike.
