It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq

Tuesday, March 31
12:00 - 5:00 pm: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq in the Delmar Loop at 6610 Delmar Blvd. 63130 in University City in between Leland Ave and Melville Ave.
6:00 - 8:00 pm: Front Room performance and discussion at the Contemporary
7:00 pm: Performance by Tris Vonna-Michell (click here for more information)

It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, a project presented by Creative Time, makes a stop in St. Louis as part of a three-week road trip by RV.

Artist Jeremy Deller, Jonathan Harvey (an Iraq war veteran and recently demobilized Psychological Opera­tions platoon sergeant), and Esam Pasha (an Iraqi refugee, artist, and former translator for the Chief Advisor in the British Embassy of Baghdad), will travel by RV on a three-week road trip stopping in at least 13 cities between New York to Los Angeles. The project will encourage public discussion of the history, present circumstances, and future of Iraq through unscripted, nonpartisan conversations in cities across the country.

After the artists involved spend the day in the Delmar Loop, they will head to the Contemporary to continue the discussion and to view a Front Room performance by artist Tris Vonna-Michell.

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Creative Time and New Museum present Jeremy Deller’s It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, hosted in St. Louis by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.