WE'RE BACK! | Artist Talk with Moheb Soliman
Join us for an artist talk by current artist-in-residence Moheb Soliman, creator of WE’RE BACK!
WE’RE BACK! is a conceptual music video project by Moheb Soliman along with Josh Theroux, composer, and James Irwin, Matthew Million, and Allan Luchenister. Beginning with a premiere during FreshGrass | Bentonville 2023 and running through two weeks of Soliman’s residency, the Momentary will screen the 22-minute film on a loop in the Fermentation Hall.
The accompanying artist talk for the project will be held on Tuesday, May 30, inside the installation in Fermentation Hall. The evening will start at 4:30 p.m. with a shared viewing of WE’RE BACK! Following the screening at 5 p.m., Soliman will join us for an artist conversation where you’ll learn more about his process and his time in residence at the Momentary. There will be light refreshments available.
See you there!
Free, no tickets required.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest whose work is oriented by issues of nature, identity, and place. He has presented writing, performance, installation, and video projects at diverse literary, art, and public spaces in the US and Canada with support from the Joyce Foundation, Banff Centre, Walker Art Center, National Park Service, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and others. Moheb’s debut poetry book HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021) explores modernity, nature, identity, and belonging in the Great Lakes bioregion/borderland and has been a finalist for multiple awards. His recent “conceptual country music video” We’re Back! is part of ongoing collaborative work about middle America and marginal fantasies of the mainstream. Based in Minneapolis, Moheb is a current Milkweed Fellow and previously was Program Director for the Arab American lit and film organization Mizna. www.mohebsoliman.info