During summer 2017, the Guggenheim Museum presented a series of conversations that brought together contemporary artists who think deeply about the most urgent social, political, environmental, or legal challenges facing our world today, with individuals who tackle those issues outside of the cultural sphere. Moderated or introduced by Guggenheim curators, these informal discussions invited different perspectives and were premised on the meeting of profound conviction with empirical experience. “Summer of Know” provided a forum for responding to and engaging with current issues as they are filtered through the lens of art.

Artist and activist Mariam Ghani and Vince Warren discussed identity and national security, in a conversation moderated by Amara Antilla, Assistant Curator, on August 8, 2017.