Ghinwa Yassine

Liminal Loop Garden (2023) multi-media performance

Performance statement:

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. 

Role:
Direction, Dramaturgy, Production

Contributions:
Sound design: Dorsa Moazami
Fabrication: Peter Boulanger
Photo Credits: Marcela Echevarría

Special thanks to the School for the Contemporary Arts and the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.