People

Audiovisual artist Laith Demashqieh explores the boundaries between sanity and insanity in unrenovated downtown Amman and works with sound as a medium and object of study, independent of text and image.

Nikolaj Larsen uses a variety of materials and media to create work with a deeply humanistic engagement at its core.

In his research-oriented curatorial work, Renan Laru-an studies ‘insufficient’ and ‘subtracted’ images and subjects at the juncture of development and integration projects.

As an instrumentalist with his own ensemble, Yusef Lateef has performed extensively in concert halls and at colleges and music festivals throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Japan and Africa, often conducting master classes and symposia in conjunction with his performances.

Quinn Latimer is a poet and critic from California whose work often explores the feminist economies of writing, reading and image production.

Standish Lawder is internationally recognized for his work in avant-garde filmmaking.

Often working with open-ended scenarios of everyday interactions, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy and self-awareness.

From her earliest works, Jac Leirner has worked with found objects, ready-mades and everyday detritus.

Since 2002, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens have developed a research-based practice that includes the production of art works, contributions to publications and lectures as well as frameworks for exhibitions.

Tonico Lemos Auad uses a wide range of materials to depict the transience of life through works that are often site-specific and impermanent in nature.

Is a historian of modern and contemporary art and theory of the Middle East and is Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley.