Oral history interview with Alfredo Jaar, 2020 July 29, Digital Video Recording
Oral history interview with Alfredo Jaar, 2020 July 29, Transcript
An interview with Alfredo Jaar conducted 2020 July 29, by Benjamin Gillespie, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project at Jaar's studio in New York, New York.
Alfredo Jaar (1956- ) is a Chilean-born American filmmaker, photographer, and architect based in New York. Jaar is known for socio-politically engaged conceptual and installation art.
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This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Reecorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)
This interview is open for research.
Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.