Photos from the first workshop (Salloum/Akhavan)

Check out the photos from our first workshop!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=170104&l=41dac230a2&id=118866515317

Imag(in)ing ‘Home’ - video and slideshow

http://www.borderzones.ca/shanaathanan.html

Imag(in)ing "Home" - a project by Shanaathanan Thamotharampillai

Imag(in)ing "Home" - a project by Shanaathanan Thamotharampillai for the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf8t0Oy4wOw

See also:

"Imag(in)ing 'Home’, Memories and Histories of a lost homeland, display at Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver," Tamil Canadian, 2010 Jan 24 <http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=563&id=5852>

March 28 with Jayce Salloum and Abbas Akhavan

Please note that the artists request the following for the first workshop:
• each participant to bring: 3-5 images/objects, 8” x 10” to 13” x 19” (that may be altered and not returned), i.e. good quality colour or black and white photocopies, not sentimental, but which speak to personal resonance/reflection on the some aspect of the actions or meditations on them
• bring lists: of things kept track of in relation to the project: images, adjectives, nouns, chronologies, histories, objects, actions, relevant dates, statistics, number of hairs lost etc.
• any favorite tools: i.e. felt pens, pencils, scissors, rulers, stickers

One of our registrants asked about the nature of the images / objects. Here's the answer:
The images do not need to be of the protests themselves.

It can be anything related to the ideas that the workshop will be  talking about.
It can be a photo or object representing your thoughts and opinions on certain ideas
It can be a photo of whatever you were looking at while your mind was thinking about notions of citizenship
It can be an object related to your own memories (of something or other).

It's pretty open :)

Check out our postcard

Check out our postcard promoting the workshops, with a brilliant poem by one of our artist facilitators, Gitanjali Lena.

Announcing the workshops!!

»Three artist-led workshops examining the 2009 protests

March 28, April 10, May 1 > 10am–5pm > Hart House, UofT

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March 28: Using images and objects from the media and participants' own collections, visual artists Jayce Salloum and Abbas Akhavan look at questions of subjectivity in the experience of conflict. Salloum and Akhavan work with the notion of the personal archive to analyse ideas of history, memory, identity and resistance. Participants will collaborate on the making of a living archive.

April 10: Performance artist Nahed Mansour will examine issues of the body as it relates to diasporic identities and visual (re)presentation. Participants will discuss and debate the effectiveness of contemporary art strategies in shedding light on these issues. Building on these discussions, dancer Meena Murugesan will facilitate a hands-on activity in which participants will be guided in creating movements and gestures in reference to the Gardiner protests, to developing a collaborative outdoor performance work. 

May 1: Participants will work within the aural landscape of the demonstrations, responding to and re-mixing the content and context of the sounds by incorporating the written and spoken practice of the chants as well as the physical sounds of the environment. Writer/spoken word artist Gitanjali Lena will lead the group through the performative and written deconstruction of the chants while sound artist Nilan Perera will facilitate the creation of real time audio mashups of media artifacts and the introduction of new material generated by the participants.

We welcome all participants, especially those with no artistic background.
For more info and
to register please contact 416-542-1661 / info[at]savac.net. This programme is FREE.

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Download previous call (.pdf)

Source:

http://savac.net/html/education.htm#tsc

Call for sound recordings from the Tamil diaspora protests

Please submit any sound recordings, or videos with sound from any of the anti-war demonstrations that took place in 2008 and 2009 in Toronto or Ottawa. The sounds from these submissions will be used for
artistic purposes only in the third and final workshop.

The workshop will be facilitated by Gitanjali Lena–spoken word artist, and Nilan Pereira–sound artist.

How to submit:

•    Include a link in the comments below.
•    Email your submission to communication[at]savac[dot]net

Thank you!