BUREAU’s Scott Sullivan talks international law at Tulane event for Pelican Bomb X Gallery’s False Flags

Image Credit: PUBLIC MOVEMENT’S DEBRIEFING SESSION I, 2012, AT THE TRIBECA GRAND, NEW YORK, AS PART OF “THE UNGOVERNABLES” AT THE NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK. COURTESY THE ARTISTS.

Panel Discussion: “Imagined Communities and the Nation State”

APRIL 2, 2016 @ 3:30PM

TULANE UNIVERSITY
WOLDENBERG ART CENTER
NEW ORLEANS LA 70118

 

In conjunction with “False Flags” at Pelican Bomb Gallery X, curator Noah Simblist leds a panel discussion about contemporary notions of nationalism and the representation of imagined communities in the Middle East and the Americas. Panelists included Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir from the Tel Aviv-based Exterritory Project, an interdisciplinary initiative that encourages both the theoretical and practical exploration of ideas concerning extraterritoriality, and Alhena Katsof and Nir Shauloff from Public Movement, a performative research body based in Tel Aviv, which investigates and stages political actions in public spaces. Both Exterritory Project and Public Movement have work on view in “False Flags” at X.

 

The artists were joined by Scott Sullivan (BUREAU of CHANGE/Louisiana State University Law Center) and Tabitha Mustafa (New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee).

 

Scott Sullivan is a supporting founder of BUREAU of CHANGE and regular contributor to BUREAU projects as mentor and facilitator of discourse in our studio on human rights, foreign relations and institutional reform. He has participated in several BUREAU projects such as *Education Not Guaranteed, BUREAU of CHANGE meets with North Korea and Field Telephone: theaterofwar (13 videos curated by the U.S. Intelligence Community depicting chemical weapons deaths in Syria on August 21, 2013). For the panel, Scott discussed the relationship between international law and concepts of extraterritoriality as it relates to creative works in the “False Flags” exhibition.