March 28 > Abbas Akhavan & Jayce Salloum, East commons room
April 10 > Nahed Mansour & Meena Murugesan, Debates room
May 1 > Gitanjali Lena & Nilan Perera, Debates room
10am–4pm, Hart House, UofT (how to get to Hart House)
We welcome all participants, especially those with no artistic background. To register please contact:
info[at]savac[dot]net / 416-542-1661
SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre)
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 450
Toronto ON M5V 3A8
SAVAC is hosting 3 artist-led workshops that will look at the 2009 Tamil diaspora demonstrations.
Through readings, lectures, discussions and hands-on exercises, participants will examine how these events relate to local ideas of nationalism and multiculturalism, transnational and diaspora political models, and other similar demonstrations in Canada and around the world. The workshops aim to activate the voices that get lost in the dominant representations of the protests, and create a broader dialogue around the social, political and performative efficacy of the protests. Facilitating artists will consider photographic and documentary practices and the internet as both tool and archive; public space, ownership, citizenship; the use of language by spectator and participant alike; sound and the body as a device of resistance. These events will assist in organizing SAVAC’s event for the 2010 Tamil Studies Conference at UofT.
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. more (materials list) >>
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. more (call for sound recordings) >>
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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