Join us immediately follow Nina Katchadourian's lecture http://events.umich.edu/event/26775 as we celebrate the opening of our newest exhibition, Nina Katchadourian's "Accent Elimination."

About "Accent Elimination":
Nina Katchadourian’s work exists in a variety of media including sculpture sound, video, and photography. Her video piece "Accent Elimination," which was included in the 2015 Venice Biennale as part of the Armenian exhibition, was inspired by her parents and their accents and life stories, which suggest that the question as to where a person comes from is not so simple to answer, and the answers speak to a larger family story about displacement migration, intermarriage, and diaspora. With the help of an “accent elimination” coach, Katchadourian sets out to learn to speak in her parents’ accents, and for them to acquire a “standard American accent.” As the video reflects, it proves to be a moving, confusing, frustrating and often hilarious experience.