[Please note this is a two day event. It will be happening on April 7 from 16h00-20h00 and on April 8 from 10h00-20h00. You can visit the installation at any of those times.]
DESCRIPTION
Four participants and I, Palestinians living in diaspora: Lebanon, Jordan, Norway and Canada… Why and how?
Each one of us has a story to tell based on: diaspora and identity… belonging and attachment… Land and belief…
The starting point for this collective endeavor is our feelings of nostalgia, chaos, and a collage of images from memory, the memories of our grandparents and parents, as well as our imagined individual and collective memories. Hence the question stretching from memory to imagination:
What does homeland mean to you?
If there were no borders and you were able to visit Palestine for only one day, where would you go and what would you do?
This collaborative installation is the result of the research-creation process of Lucine Serhan’s work as part of her MA thesis in Art Education at Concordia University. All the videos are in the Arabic language with English subtitles.
With the participation of: Ahmed Alaydi, Fadia Khorbity, Dareen Miliji and Rahma Mughrabi.
اربع مشاركين وانا…. من فلسطين، نعيش في الشتات، في لبنان، الاردن، النروج وكندا…
لماذا وكيف؟
لدى كل واحد منا حكاية يرويها حول الترحال والهوية، الانتماء والتعلق، الأرض والفكره
ينطلق هذا العمل الجماعي مما نشعر به من حنين وفوضى وصور مركبة من الذاكرة، ذاكرة الاجداد والآباء وتلك المتخيلة الفردية والجماعية
:فجاء السؤال يمتد من الذاكرة الي الخيال
ماذا يعني لك المكان او الوطن؟
ولو لم تكن هناك حدود واستطعت أن تذهب الى فلسطين ليوم واحد فقط، أين ستذهب وماذا ستفعل؟
يأتي هذا المعرض الجماعي نتيجة البحث الذي تنفّذه لوسين سرحان كجزء من مشروع أطروحتها في ماجستير التعلّم من خلال الفنون في جامعة كونكورديا. كل الفيديوهات التي تُعرض خلاله هي باللغة العربية مع ترجمة بالانكليزي
المشاركين: أحمد العايدي، فاديه خربيطي، دارين ميليجي، رحمه مغربي
THE PRESENTER
Lucine Serhan is a Palestinian, Lebanon-born artist, reseracher and community art educator with a background in theater, film, and television production. She has collaborated on multiple creative oral history and storytelling projects with women refugees and youth. Lucine uses puppetry and storytelling as a social means of action to address identity, displacement, belonging, and memory. She is a founder of beit byout, a cultural organization that integrates art with storytelling to explore the Arabic language and culture.
COHDS/ALLAB are grateful to be able to offer our programming on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
DETAILS
In English and Arabic
In Person
With Lucine Serhan
LOCATION
Acts of Listening Lab
Concordia University
Library Building, 10th Floor, Room LB-1042.02
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W.
Montreal, QC, Canada
MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions, contact us at acts.listeninglab@concordia.ca.
