Join artist Monica Haller for a lecture at the ICP School. Haller will discuss the Veterans Book Project (VBP)*. This talk concludes Haller's two-week residence at ICP to facilitate a VBP workshop. Haller, along with the new authors, will discuss the process and the books they have just finished.
Monica Haller is an artist who uses media including photography, design, sound, and writing. She has a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies and an MFA in Visual Studies. Her work has focused on violent and non-violent activities in human and environmental systems. Her recent work includes Riley and his story and the Veterans Book Project, both focused on the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently she's working with soil, its memory, and geological time—particularly in the wetlands of coastal Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta.
Haller has received awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Recently she exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum; Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy; and the 01SJ Biennial, San Jose.
*The Veterans Book Project is a library of books authored collaboratively by Haller and dozens of people who have been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the printed format, the books provide a place or "container" that slows down and materializes the great quantity of ephemeral image files that live on veterans’ hard drives and in their heads. Each book re-deploys volatile images with the aim of rearticulating and refashioning memories, standing both independently of and in concert with the larger collection.