The Phil Lind Initiative: Smriti Keshari & Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser is a writer and filmmaker. His book Command and Control, a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in History, describes the challenges of managing America’s nuclear arsenal. His book Fast Food Nation (2001) helped to launch the modern food movement. Smriti Keshari is an acclaimed Indian-American director and is an artist-in-residence at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the National Theatre in London.

This dynamic art exhibition, the bomb, kicks off the 2025 Phil Lind Initiative series and can be visited any time during opening hours of the AHVA Gallery 12-4pm Tue-Fri from January 7-30. The exhibition opening with the artists takes place at the AHVA Gallery January 15 at 5pm. You can also join in for a special conversation with artists Smriti Keshari & Eric Schlosser on January 16 at 6:30pm at the Chan Centre’s Royal Bank Cinema.

Presented by UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in partnership with the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.