Field Trip: The Iraq Conversation in the U.S.

Project curators, the artist, and individuals with firsthand experience in Iraq discuss the exhibition It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, and their cross-country road trip. Artist Jeremy Deller creates a broad range of projects, including orchestrated events, films, and publications that draw attention to forms of culture on the fringes of the mainstream. Jonathan Harvey spent a year long tour in Iraq in 2007, in charge of a detachment of soldiers in northwest Baghdad. Laura Hoptman and Amy Mackie of the New Museum are co-curators of this exhibition. Esam Pasha is a painter and writer from Iraq who was the first artist to paint a new mural over a portrait of Saddam Hussein. Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at Creative Time in New York City. ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required. Hammer Museum