Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She is a founding member of BLOCC (Building Leverage over Creative Capitalism), a research and education platform that seeks to alter the relationship between Contemporary Art and gentrification. Noorizadeh is currently pursuing her practice via the collaborative project [Beirut] Art Protocol, namely, a think-group, website and support structure dedicated to extracting logistically viable guidelines for negotiating the informal economy of Contemporary Art.
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Cash Out Now: On the Strange Symbiosis of Sexual Harassment and Contemporary Art
#MeToo The final months of 2017 saw campaigns against sexual harassment in the workplace. #MeToo—initiated within the American blockbuster industry—swept social media, sending many male gatekeepers packing (for the time being). A backlash followed when a letter co-written by five French women denounced #MeToo as a reactionary regression towards an antiquated puritanism. Beyond a conservative… Read More »