Tag: Basil AlZeri

© Basil AlZeri, T.M.K.L Presents: beit Suad, 2013. Photo Henry Chan.

Palestine / Canada
https://basilalzeri.com/

Basil AlZeri is an interdisciplinary, Toronto-based Palestinian artist working in performance, video, installation, food, and public art interventions/projects. His work is grounded in his practice as an art educator and community worker.  He is engaged with the intersection of everyday actions and life necessities with art. Given the context of a space, his work strives to interact with the public through gestures of generosity in social interactions and exchanges. AlZeri’s performance work has been exhibited in Toronto (Nuit Blanche, Whipper Snapper Gallery), Quebec (Fait Maison 14), Winnipeg (Central Canadian Centre for Performance), and Mexico (Transmuted International Performance Art Festival, Performancear O Morir). Upcoming projects include a public performance project with the Ottawa Art Gallery/Creative Cities Conference, and performances in Chile And Argentina in 2013.

ARTISTS
Basil AlZeri
Cressida Kocienski
Golboo Amani
Maryam Taghavi

.sight.specific. proposes performance art as the staging of sight as site: observation as contour, terrain, and architecture for modes of aesthetic embodiment. The project consists of four commissioned live works in search of situated perspectives on the possibilities of performance as a contextual spatial practice. The works situate artists and audiences by trading knowledge on the streets, tracing trans-planetary sight lines, creating home and hospitality in real time through cyberspace, and staging variations on absurdity. The shapes of these relationships brings into focus questions of knowledge and memory, contact and distance, longing and belonging.

.site.specific is co-presented with Xpace Cultural Centre

PROGRAM & EVENTS

Performance: The School of Bartered Knowledge by Golboo Amani
Fridays and Saturdays in March 2013 @ 2:00pm–6:00pm

Performance: Planetaria by Cressida Kocienski
March 8, 2013 @ 8:00pm

Performance: T.M.K.L Presents: beit Suad by Basil AlZeri
March 15, 2013 @ 8:00pm
Co-presented by FUSE Magazine and Israeli Apartheid Week Toronto

Workshop: T.M.K.L Presents: beit Suad by Basil AlZeri
March 16 & 17, 2013 @ 1:00pm

Performance: Variations on Absurdity by Maryam Taghavi
March 22, 2013 @ 8:00pm

Exhibition opening: .sight.specific. residue/ephemera
March 28, 2013 @ 7:00pm

Panel Discussion: Viewing .sight.specific.
With Basil AlZeri, Golboo Amani, Cressida Kocienski, Maryam Taghavi, and moderators Johanna Householder and Francisco-Fernando Granados
March 30, 2013 @ 2:00pm