Sofitel Suite Manhattan

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Haig Aivazian’s mesmerizing one hour-long keynote Performance-Lecture for FIELD MEETING, transported the audience through an array of images and sound, into the stories, dynamics, and narratives that emerged from the visualizations of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn Affair. Centered around an assault in a Sofitel suite in Manhattan, where the only witness was also the survivor of the attack, the work seeks to ultimately present a strange framework, through which an immaterial globalized financial economy and corporeal violence become inextricably linked.