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Walid Raad: Two drops per Heartbeat

  • August 7 - 8, 2026
  • PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

    2980 New York 66
    Chatham, New York 12037
Ticket Price $12.50-$110.00 Buy Tickets
Description

A Persian carpet, images of clouds, gold and silver medieval cups, and depictions of American swamps and marshes. 


Lebanese media artist Walid Raad’s Two Drops per Heartbeat holds a lens up to an array of strange artifacts, examining their contexts in an attempt to disentangle the artifacts’ strangeness via comparison to objects from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. The result is a dense web of narratives that links in an intuitive and intriguing way the history of the collections with the political, economic, and social history of the modern world: from slavery and racism in North America to the Cold War and the trouble spots of our present day; from weather forecasting technologies to the realm of the undeath. 


Raad’s had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Dream City (Tunis), Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana), Kunsthaus Zürich (Switzerland), Kunsthalle Mainz (Germany), and is featured in the collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Stedelijk Museum  (Amsterdam), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Centre Pompidou (Paris). In addition, Raad serves as a professor of photography at Bard College and Cooper’s Union. 

Date & Time

Aug 7 - 8, 2026

Venue Details

PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

2980 New York 66
Chatham, New York 12037 PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance
PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

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