丁香园AV

with Ghinwa Yassine
Saturday, January 13, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Room 4210 鈥� 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tickets (sliding scale): $5 鈥� $25

Absence addicted construct
    creative embody evils
                exist LIMINAL gap in-between
                leaving love necessary one鈥檚
                others receipts pain place pool LOOP prison
                                    processing sake
                                    self-compartmentalization
                                            shift social space support GARDEN structures
                        there wholeness word

This research-performance is an embodied experiment in freedom initiated by Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities and anti-disciplinary artist Ghinwa Yassine and conducted with a group of seven visual artists and performers, Andrea Denny-Jiles, Melanie Evelyn, Raha Pakdel, Deepali Raiththa, Ella Tani, Fran莽oise Thibault, and Liz Wurzinger.

Biography

Ghinwa Yassine is an anti-disciplinary artist based on the land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people, so-called Vancouver. Her work uses various media, including film, installation, performance, text, and drawing. Yassine鈥檚 work confronts the ideological and patriarchal systems that she grew up in while exploring collective feelings and what it means to be a marked body. She seeks a radical historicizing of individual and collective traumas where embodied memories are put into question. Using hybrid forms of storytelling, where story manifests as somatic experiencing, ritual, and gesture, her projects are portals to factual/fictional dimensions that activate collective memory.

Yassine holds an MFA in Contemporary Art - Interdisciplinary Studies at 丁香园AV in Vancouver, an MA in Digital Video Design from the University of the Arts Utrecht, and a BA in Graphic Design from the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut. Her works have been exhibited in the Netherlands, Lebanon, UAE, Canada, Iran, and Croatia.