October 19: Welcome to Camp America Book Talk & Signing
(RSVP here)
Where: Busboys and Poets (14 & V), 2021 14th St NW,
Washington, DC 20009
When: Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and the event will begin
at 6:30 p.m.
CCR advocacy program manager Aliya Hussain will moderate
an a conversation about Guantánamo and its contradictions
with Debi Cornwall, Major Raashid Williams, a lawyer with the
Military Commissions Defense Organization, and Dr. Maha Hilal, the inaugural
Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and an
organizer with Witness Against Torture.
October 28: Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay:
Exhibition, Discussion & Reception (RSVP here)
Where: Steven Kasher Gallery, 515 W. 26th St., New York, NY 10001
When: Program will begin at 2:30 p.m. with a reception to follow
CCR senior staff attorney J. Wells Dixon will join
conceptual documentary artist Debi Cornwall, and author, curator,
editor, and critic Fred Ritchin for an interdisciplinary panel discussion
on Guantánamo Bay, art, and social justice. Additional panelists to be added.
On display at the Steven Kasher Gallery will be Debi Cornwall’s
first New York solo exhibition, Welcome to Camp America, Inside
Guantánamo Bay, which presents 29 large-scale color photographs
as previously classified documents. Three bodies of work are on view in the
exhibition. Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play portrays the
residential and leisure spaces of both the prisoners and the guards,
juxtaposing implied comfort and forced restraint. Gitmo on Sale depicts
the commodification of American military power through the prison’s gift-shop
souvenirs. Beyond Gitmo investigates the lives after detention of
14 men once held as accused terrorists, now cleared and living in nine
countries, from Albania to Qatar. The exhibition, which runs from October
26 through December 22, launches the publication of Cornwall’s first monograph, Welcome to Camp America, Inside
Guantánamo Bay (Radius Books, 2017).
MotherJones has more on the photos and the book here.
MotherJones has more on the photos and the book here.
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