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Salina Abaza
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I might be there, though I'm not sure of the address!
*sneez* *sneez*
can some one open the windows! it's rotten in here!!!
miss you boys.. I wonder how's everyone? all alive?
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- Age
- As old as a new flicked cigarette
- I am...
- pair of BLACK-framed eye glasses
- Artistic Field or Interest
- Graphic design and video editing. Digital arts.
- Profession
- Student of English Literature/ Damascus Uni- 3rd Year.
- Artistic and professional experiences
- Producing my self through visual vomit.
- I like...
- to breath
- Statement
- "Art is not a mirror, art is a hammer"~ Don't remember.
- Research interests
- We (Hanadi and Salina) will try to experiment the meaning of ‘collaboration’ through our relationship with ‘place’ and ‘time’ and with each other as well by building up a new world in which we can control the places we visit and the time we decide to visit those place at.
We will decide to do a specific thing every week at an exact time and photograph what we are doing. Two photographs only will be chosen to be put together in one work for each action we do. In the end of the project, we will get a set of images where the viewer can see what we did but he/she may not be able to recognize the place or the time if we did not mention that.
We believe that it is a very interesting experience to do the same thing at the same time in the full awareness that somebody else in the other part of the world is doing the same. This experiment will encourage us to explore the meaning of the “Art and social relevance” and see how art can help us to explore our feelings towards the work we will be doing and how each one of us can approach that work in the way she can also explore her own identity and see how to express what she does, sees, and feels. In this research trip identity will be explored as the following:
- Identity as a social feature (born with – influenced by social culture)/limited and inside the frame
- Identity as a personal feature (collective-creation of personal/self culture)/unlimeted and out side the frame
- Crossing social earned identity with personal collected identity (cross points – exoticism and xenophobia as earned or collected – behavior as a crossing point – self image including body image and sexual definition and behavior)
- Limitations of social identity versus those of personal ones
Salina Abaza's Blog
Identity as a generative system.. BLAH!
Identity as a generative system:
1- Identity as a social inherited feature:
-what are the elements of these features?
National identity including ID card and passport, past family memories (the memories of the parents and the grand parents), geographical and biological identity including the environment and social frame and general norms.
-are these feature disposable?
2- Identity as a collective self culture
-what is the self culture?
As a combination of collected ideas, concepts of the world… Continue
1- Identity as a social inherited feature:
-what are the elements of these features?
National identity including ID card and passport, past family memories (the memories of the parents and the grand parents), geographical and biological identity including the environment and social frame and general norms.
-are these feature disposable?
2- Identity as a collective self culture
-what is the self culture?
As a combination of collected ideas, concepts of the world… Continue
Posted on July 31, 2008 at 1:18pm —
Smell of my City
Today Damascus smelt a lot like Rome, I think it has to do with the humidity overwhelming me these days.
However, talking about the regular ordinary smell of everyday, it's the smell of fuel, smoke, and sweat, specially when I am stuffed in one of these public buses, holding a book in my hand where my finger tips stick to its papers with full passion, and full sweat.
The sweat, no it's not the bad smell, but it's the frown on the facades of people and vehicles alike. Sweat smell, speically that… Continue
However, talking about the regular ordinary smell of everyday, it's the smell of fuel, smoke, and sweat, specially when I am stuffed in one of these public buses, holding a book in my hand where my finger tips stick to its papers with full passion, and full sweat.
The sweat, no it's not the bad smell, but it's the frown on the facades of people and vehicles alike. Sweat smell, speically that… Continue
Posted on July 17, 2008 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments
Comment Wall (9 comments)
- At 9:41pm on May 14, 2009,
Woroud said…
http://www.subtopia.se/
- At 9:41pm on May 14, 2009,
Woroud said…
- hey .. girl / check this
it's the place i told u about in Sweden
http://www.subtopia.se/
- At 11:47am on November 24, 2008,
san said… - mumtaz* the agency is looking forward to your tracing and connecting.
sunny smilez to you
- At 2:18pm on November 23, 2008,
san said…
- PS. what do you think instead of what you should think? 'the should be thinking' vs. 'the thinking'? maybe this is the autoconversation of Z?
- At 2:12pm on November 23, 2008,
san said…
- alora salina* why miss out? don't miss out. and which guy you miss? Z? ;)
" "Art is not a mirror, art is a hammer"~ Don't remember.
so better breath..."
maybe you have some fragments of Z - Z's identity - socially earned & personally collected? to perform identity as a generative system. powerkizz2u
- At 7:56pm on September 23, 2008,
Hanadi Traifeh said… - hello salina, would you please check your email asap!
thanks.x
- At 9:16am on August 3, 2008,
marwa said… - hello hanadi and salina, interesting conversation! maybe in Emily Jacir's work there is an inhabitation of a ghostly space. the ghosts of the people that where there once and cannot go back. she somehow embodies this ghost and inhabits their territory again?
- At 5:50pm on August 1, 2008,
marwa said…
- Hi Salina, after having read about your research project, and your collaboration with Hanadi I thought that you have already assigned a very interesting task for yourself: the one of doing the same action in two different places at the same time, or perhaps assigning to each other tasks? My question would be (just to clarify your intentions for myself) why do you find this synchronization process interesting?
Also I think that the questions you pose in relation to the construction of identity/identities and their relation to time and place can be the starting point for the workshop’s assignement. Maybe this time it could be related to the female body and its circulation in the city? walking into specific neighborhoods and taking notes/recording the changes that occur, when, where and how do they occur? Think of an action accordingly? do you think you would be interested in that question?
- At 12:14am on July 22, 2008,
Omar Berakdar said… - thanks Salina, you have just saved my life , i found the needed photo for assignment 4
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