Livia Alexander

Livia Alexander is a curator, writer, and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Montclair
State University. Her work is focused on examining the relationship between art infrastructure
and artistic production, urbanity, cultural politics of food and art, and contemporary art from
the Middle East and Southeast Asia. She has curated and produced numerous art and film
programs, exhibitions and events, showcased at the MoMA New York, Tate Modern, Sharjah
Art Foundation, Queens Museum, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Cinematheque Tangier,
and many more. Alexander is co-producer of the research-based interactive documentary,
Jerusalem, We Are Here (Canada/Palestine/Israel, 2016), directed by Dorit Naaman. Her award-
winning scholarly writing has appeared in the Journal of Visual Anthropology, Framework,
MERIP, and as book chapters and catalog essays. She regularly contributes to Hyeprallergic and
Harpers Bazaar Art Arabia and founded the online publication ArteEast Quarterly. She is the
editor of a year-long series commissioned by the online platform www.ArtsEverywhere.com
with Residency Unlimited, centered on artist residencies at the nexus of urban placemaking and
social practice.

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The Value of Artistic Labor

By Jane Philbrick Livia Alexander Lawrence Lemaoana Jianru Wu, and 1 more

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Artist Residencies: A Question of Time

By Isin Önol Tobi Maier Alia Swastika Petros Touloudis, and 6 more

[roundtable_menu] [contributor]Arquitectura Expandida[excerpt]Ideally, we seek a collective relationship between institution, artist, and community, with the relationship understood as the confirmation of a provisional organizational structure based on dialogue and a

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Artist (Residency) and the City

By Livia Alexander Nat Muller Harutyun Alpetyan Francesca Fiore, and 5 more

[roundtable_menu][contributor]Kira Simon-Kennedy[excerpt]Independent art spaces and cafes that wouldn’t be out of place in Copenhagen or Tokyo popped up in Beijing’s dusty gray hutong alleyways.[/excerpt][/contributor] [contributor]Azu Nwagbogu[excerpt]Africa has been historically expropriated;