(Un)Belonging
A participatory performance by Sabina Haque
Friday, May 22; 6pm PST/9pm EST
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(Un)belonging is a participatory installation with projected animations, video and live performance. (Un)belonging presents a powerful exploration of both resistance and transcendence of the many boundaries faced in our world: emotional, political, physical. A video of a silhouette-performer is projected onto a portal-like screen with a slit that allows for passage through it. The manifestation “to belong” resides in the body, expressing moments of kindness, acceptance and welcoming versus rejection or pushing away. What is the impulse that wants to push the next newcomer out? This cycle of welcoming and excluding is explored through projected shadow movements which transgress these man-made global borderlines. Haque collaborated with three performers of color to choreograph movement cycles in response to the projected shadow figure and the borderlines. Between the live performances, viewers are invited to move through the portal-like space and interact with the moving silhouette.
Documented Performance at the Shaking Tree Theater, May 2018 - Duration 7 mins
Sabina Haque: Director & Producer
Performers: Tamara Lynne (shadow performer) Live dancers: Subashini Ganesan, Michele Ainza & Simeon Jacob
Ian Lucero: Cinematography & Video Editor
Sara Karl: Animation
Funded in part by RACC & the OR arts commission
A larger art installation and Performance has been rescheduled to November 2020 at the Paragon Gallery in PDX: Sabina Haque: (UN)BELONGING, November 11 – December 12, 2020. (info)
Sabina Haque BIO
Sabina’s art works tell stories of inclusion and exclusion through multi-sensory installations. Using drawing, animation and performance she investigates identity, site and power in the divergent places she calls home. Raised in Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan, by her American and Pakistani parents, Haque has spent half her life in America. “This cross-cultural experience,” she says, informs her conceptual approach, as an artist she excavates the layers and transformations of identity and place.”
Haque’s installations and film were recently included in Portland 2019 Biennial and the Portland International film festival in March 2020. Noted fellowships include Oregon Art Commission Artist Fellowship and artist residencies at Portland Archives & Records Center and with TEDxMtHood. Haque received an M.F.A from Boston University and teaches Art at Portland State University, Oregon.
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This event is part of the VIRTUAL VANPORT MOSAIC FESTIVAL - an online series of memory activism opportunities curated by Story Midwife Laura Lo Forti.
