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Visual Arts Exhibition: Collaborative work with Marcy Chevali
Encounters
Curated by Grace Aneiza Ali and presented at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Jamaica, New York.
Dates: April 1, 2021 through May 15, 2021.
Curatorial Statement
Encounters brings together artists whose work aims to bridge geographical, cultural, and political boundaries within South Asia and its diaspora.* The exhibition will depart from the individual artist model. Instead, Encounters will feature artist pairs—partnerships between two artists who each have strong connections or roots in the South Asian diaspora. Their collaborative work will emphasize narratives of connection and intersection, weave shared histories and experiences that may have been otherwise unknown or invisible, and envision collective futures and dreams among communities within the South Asian diaspora. In the present moment, as all forms of “distance” and “division” and “isolation” overwhelm our daily lives and our world, the exhibition will turn to a model of creative partnership, dialogue, community-building, and collaboration as social acts. The artworks featured in the exhibition will illuminate exchanges and shared bonds within the South Asian women’s diaspora—creating a space for support and an economy of care.
Download the Press Release below--
Encounters
Curated by Grace Aneiza Ali and presented at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in Jamaica, New York.
Dates: April 1, 2021 through May 15, 2021.
Curatorial Statement
Encounters brings together artists whose work aims to bridge geographical, cultural, and political boundaries within South Asia and its diaspora.* The exhibition will depart from the individual artist model. Instead, Encounters will feature artist pairs—partnerships between two artists who each have strong connections or roots in the South Asian diaspora. Their collaborative work will emphasize narratives of connection and intersection, weave shared histories and experiences that may have been otherwise unknown or invisible, and envision collective futures and dreams among communities within the South Asian diaspora. In the present moment, as all forms of “distance” and “division” and “isolation” overwhelm our daily lives and our world, the exhibition will turn to a model of creative partnership, dialogue, community-building, and collaboration as social acts. The artworks featured in the exhibition will illuminate exchanges and shared bonds within the South Asian women’s diaspora—creating a space for support and an economy of care.
Download the Press Release below--
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Work in Progress...
- new materialism/post-human onto-epistemologies, entanglements, quantum entanglements (through Barad) and artmaking
- material explorations/entanglements through artmaking
- decolonial practices- specifically what is at stake when we diffract de/post-colonial theory through posthumanism/new materialism
- interrogations into agency and authorship through artmaking
- exploring online collaborative research/artmaking practices
- inquiry into material/materiality through diffractive artmaking practice.
- collaborative installation, performance, and sculpture.
- analog&digital drawings/doodles/thinking