CONVERSATION BETWEEN REHAB NAZZAL AND ANNA SHAH HOQUE

Thursday August 17, 2023
5:30 PM
Free, Hall Building, ground floor, next to the cube (1455, de Maisonneuve Boul. West)

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Join artist Rehab Nazzal and curator Anna Shah Hoque for a lively behind-the-scenes discussion of Nazzal’s Bodies in Motion on August 17, 2023. The conversation will inform and shape your relationship with the installation in new and meaningful ways. Centring Palestinian resistance to ongoing settler colonial occupation, Nazzal’s work asks you to consider the relationship between social change and art practice, all while developing visual works that can speak to geo-local and transnational struggles for freedom and self-determination.

Anna Shah Hoque (she/they) is a South Asian-Persian queer curator, visual storyteller, educator, and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Feminist & Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. She is an adjunct professor at Concordia and producer/host of the To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive podcast series. She serves on the Board of Directors at Gallery 101 and is a member of Firegrove Studio, a visual storytelling arts collective.

Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto and Montreal. Her work deals with the effects of settler-colonial violence on the bodies and minds of colonized peoples, on the land and on other non-human life. Nazzal’s video, photography and sound works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally. She was an assistant professor at Dar Al-Kalima University in Bethlehem and has taught at Simon Fraser University, Western University and Ottawa School of Art. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Social Justice Award from Toronto Metropolitan University and the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Arts Award in Photography from the University of Ottawa. Nazzal is the current Horizon postdoctoral fellow of the Post Image Cluster, which is part of Concordia University’s Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology.

This public program is part of SIGHTINGS 38, presented from May 29 to September 17, 2023 on the ground floor of the Hall Building of Concordia University: 1455, blvd. De Maisonneuve West, accessible weekdays and weekends from 7 am to 11 pm.