Performance As Sketchpad
This workshop on performance is conducted by Maryam Taghavi (artist-in-residence).
Performance as an art practice helps artists investigate ideas before making objects, a role it has played since the early 1900s. As a medium, performance is continuously experimented with across formal, social, and political levels, making it an instrumental force in shaping twentieth-century art. During the workshop, participants briefly examine key works from the past century and discuss ways of collapsing established disciplines to arrive at new forms of production. Through collective and individual exercises, they brainstorm concepts based on verbal and physical materials and test their realization through performance.
Maryam Taghavi graduates from Emily Carr University in Vancouver in 2008 and continues to work across drawing, performance, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Issues of adaptation, displacement, and collapse remain central to her practice. Informed by mundane activities, materials, and situations, her work seeks to reconfigure existing relationships and negotiate multiple scenarios in order to create conditions for ephemeral experience, contemplation, and other forms of exchange. Her work is exhibited in Canada, Mexico, and Iran.
Venue: Sazmanab (Sazman-e Ab St.)
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Time: 5–8 PM
