About

Creative Time Reports strives to be a global leader in publishing the unflinching and provocative perspectives of artists on the most challenging issues of our times. We distribute this content to the public and media free of charge.

Asserting that culture and the free exchange of ideas are at the core of a vibrant democracy, Creative Time Reports aims to publish dispatches that speak truth to power and upend traditional takes on current issues. We believe that artists play a crucial role as thought leaders in society, and are uniquely capable of inspiring and encouraging a more engaged and informed public, whether they are addressing elections or climate change, censorship or immigration, protest movements or politically motivated violence.

In an era of unprecedented interconnectedness, Creative Time Reports provides artists with a space to voice analysis and commentary on issues too often overlooked by mainstream media. We believe in the importance of highlighting cultural producers’ distinctive viewpoints on world events and urgent issues of social justice to ensure a livelier, more nuanced and more imaginative public debate.

The views expressed by artists and authors contributing to Creative Time Reports are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Creative Time. Creative Time is committed to free expression and supports artists in their efforts to move the needle of social justice by revealing new ways of looking at and understanding our world.

Editorial Team

Editor

Marisa Mazria Katz @MarisaMazriaK

Marisa is a New York-based writer who has covered culture and politics in cities that include Casablanca, Kabul, Port-au-Prince and Istanbul. Her work has been featured in several publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Time, Vogue and the New York Times. In addition to her writing, she ran a U.S. State Department-sponsored program in Casablanca that taught journalism and blogging to at-risk youth for four years.

Marisa graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1998 with a BFA in Film and Television and in Drama. She has worked on several documentaries and television shows, including Channel 4’s The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, a docudrama that detailed the killing of a peace activist by an Israeli army sniper; HBO’s By The People: The Election of Barack Obama; and DreamWorks’ Spin City.

Editorial Fellow

Karin Shankar

Karin Shankar is the Andrew W. Mellon Global Postdoctoral fellow at Creative Time. She received her PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. As a researcher, writer, performer, and educator, her interests include public art and social art practice, contemporary performance and visual culture in South Asia and Latin America, feminist aesthetics, and new media art. She is the co-editor (with Kirsten Larson) of P[art]icipatory Urbanisms, a two-part publication featuring a compilation of interviews with urban practitioners in São Paulo and New Delhi and a critical anthology of essays examining the triangulation of urban participation, aesthetics, and politics. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation research on contemporary art and performance in New Delhi.

Karin holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Global Studies and Spanish Literature from Colby College.

Editor-at-Large

Kareem Estefan @KareemEstefan

Kareem Estefan is a writer, editor, and PhD student in Brown University’s Modern Culture and Media department, where he researches contemporary visual culture from the Middle East. He has written about contemporary art and culture for magazines and journals including Art in America, BOMB, Frieze, Ibraaz, and The New Inquiry. Currently, he is co-editing (with Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich) an anthology of writings on cultural boycotts, which will be published by OR Books in association with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Kareem holds an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Comparative Literature from New York University.

Contributing Editors

Mirene-Arsanios_bio Mirene Arsanios lives in Beirut, where she teaches at the American University of Beirut and edits Makhzin, a bilingual literary journal. Her writings have appeared in Bidoun, Cura, The Rumpus, Ink & Coda and Enizagam, among others.

Omar-Berrada_bio Omar Berrada is a writer, translator and curator. He co-directs Dar al-Ma’mûn, a library and international residency for artists and writers near Marrakech.

Lorna-Brown_bio Lorna Brown is an artist, curator and writer based in Vancouver, and a founding member of Other Sights for Artists’ Projects, a collective whose projects consider the aesthetic, economic and regulatory conditions of public places and public life. She was the editor of Ruins In Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties, a co-curator of the public artwork Digital Natives and an organizer of the conference Institutions by Artists.

Sheyma-Buali_bio Sheyma Buali (@sheymab) lives in London. She is currently managing the BBC Arabic Film and Documentary Festival. She is also commissioning editor of the Ibraaz Channel, culture correspondent for Asharq AlAwsat and a regular contributor to a number of international arts publications.

Olivia Olivia El-Sadr Davis is a writer and photographer based in Brooklyn. She holds a BA in Art History and Economics from New York University, with focuses on contemporary art and urban economics.

CE_cvn_2_bio Ceren Erdem (@crnrdm) is a curator based in New York and Istanbul. She has curated online projects and publications, and onsite exhibitions in New York, Istanbul and Seoul, working with the Istanbul Biennial and the British Council, among others.

Naomi-Lev_bio Naomi Lev is a curator and critic who writes about politically-infused contemporary art for Artforum.com, Art in America and BOMB Magazine, among other publications. As a curator she specializes in collaborative art events that connect artists, curators and scholars, and has curated performances and panels with artists such as Jonathan Meese and Vito Acconci.

Ngwatilo-Mawiyoo_bio Ngwatilo Mawiyoo (@ngwatilo) is a poet currently competing an MFA at the University of British Columbia. A Callaloo Fellow, she also writes non-fiction and work for the screen.

Patrick-Pierce_bio Patrick Pierce (@TJMyanmar, @peajaypee) is a writer and researcher with roots in Indiana, Texas, Thailand, the Solomon Islands and Myanmar. He is currently working on a project about freedom of expression and the culture of fear following decades of military rule in Myanmar.