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AKA Gallery in partnership with The Red Shift Gallery presents NAHED MANSOUR Disorientalism. May 5 - 23 Week 1 : Where I'm From Week 2 : Resisting Oral Assimilation Week 3 : Archiving Voice All events take place at The Red Shift Gallery. #118 - 20th Street West, Saskatoon, SK OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 9 at 8 pm. In Disorientalism, Mansour will research, experiment, and develop a series of three performances involving sound and video components. The project aims to shed light on immigrant issues relating to notions of identity, belonging, and labor. Born and raised in the diaspora, Nahed Mansour has adopted a problematic relationship to her Arab-Egyptian identity that expresses itself in the personal, social, and political layers of her art practice. Working in performance, video, and installation, her visual language aims to expose borders, both real and imagined, that sustain a distance between the various 'homelands' that trans-national identities simultaneously reside in. This project will expose the confusion caused by a doubling of narratives between what the artist has experienced versus what she has learned. Disorientalism will focus on three components a body in the diaspora constantly tackles; the (un)negotiability of space/ land, language, and racial identity. Nahed Mansour is a multidisciplinary artist whose works layer personal, social, historical, and political dimensions. Born in 1983 to Egyptian parents, Nahed Mansour resided in the Gulf until 2002 when she moved to Canada to study at the University of Toronto. Receiving an H.B.A Specialization in Semiotics and Communication Theory at the University of Toronto, Mansour has a solid grounding in interdisciplinary approaches to artistic practice - particularly with regards to power-dynamics informing the increasingly transnational relationship between state systems and historically disempowered communities. Her performances have been presented in Nuit Blanche (Toronto, 2006), DSM-V+ (Quebec City, 2006), and 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto, 2006). She curated a three-day performance series titles 'Enter-gration' for Fado's 2007 Emerging Artist Series. The public is welcome to visit the artist working in the gallery from Tuesday, May 5 through Friday, May 23 during gallery hours. Nahed is interested in meeting members of the community while she is in town who are interested in discussing the issues on which her practice is founded and how they are revealed within the Saskatoon community. Please contact AKA to find out how to meet with the artist during her stay. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, May 9 at 8 pm. All activities will take place at the Red Shift Gallery, located at #118 – 20th Street West, Saskatoon. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, noon until 4. For more information, contact:
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The balcony and billboard have been installed with the remaining façade improvements -- insulation, siding, and new doors -- to be completed when the weather permits. An efficient, radiant heating system has been installed with supplementary mechanical ventilation to follow. The concrete floors throughout the building have been ground and polished to a lovely shine, a lift to the second floor has been installed and all framing has been completed. Electrical upgrades, (including new exhibition lighting in the gallery!) plumbing and the remaining construction will take place during the coming months. Stay tuned for more updates as things develop! |
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