Emerging Artists Series 2013

Curated by Francisco-Fernando Granados

Participating artists: Basil AlZeri, Golboo Amani, Cressida Kocienski, Maryam Taghavi
Co-presented by Xpace Cultural Centre

.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 for situated perspectives on the possibilities of performance as a contextual spatial practice. The works situate artists and audience 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.