Liminal Loop Garden
with Ghinwa Yassine
Saturday, January 13, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Room 4210 – SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tickets (sliding scale): $5 – $25
Absence addicted construct
creative embody evils
exist LIMINAL gap in-between
leaving love necessary one’s
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, Françoise 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’s 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 Simon Fraser University 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.