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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