Emily Jacir is an artist, filmmaker, and educator whose practice spans a range of strategies, including film, photography, sculpture, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing, and sound. Jacir has built a complex and compelling oeuvre through a diverse range of media and methodologies that include unearthing historical material, performative gestures, and in-depth research. Her work investigates personal and collective movement through public space and its implications on the physical and social experience of trans-mediterranean space and time. She has been actively involved in education and deeply invested in creating alternative spaces of knowledge production internationally since 1998. She is the founder and director of Dar Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem.
