Blood of Tulips

Salar Mameni is the author of Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke 2024) and Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. An Art Historian by training, Mameni specializes in contemporary transnational art and visual culture in the Arab/Muslim world with a specific focus on ecological thought, oil cultures, geopolitics of war and resource extraction in West Asia. Mameni is currently working on a second book project on sacred ecologies in Southwest Asia and North Africa and has published essays in Representations, Qui Parle, Catalyst, Signs, Women & Performance, Al-Raida Journal, Fuse Magazine, Fillip Review, Canadian Art Journal and has written for exhibition catalogues in Dubai, Sharjah, Istanbul, and Karachi. Mameni is also a visual artist and has performed and exhibited work in Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Mexico City. Mameni graduated from Emily Carr in 2004.

Research As… is a public program that makes creative research visible. Taking up residency at the Libby Leshgold Gallery, artists, writers, curators, designers, performers, filmmakers, are invited to engage with ECU and the wider arts community in a series of public programs that present their research practices.