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Set along the edges of the Dubai Creek and the courtyards of the Jameel Arts Centre, this workshop invites participants to explore how creative practice can emerge from close encounters with nature. Together, participants will engage in a sensory walk that encourages attentiveness to sound, texture, scent and memory. By paying close attention to the gentle crashing of waves or the views across the water, the workshop will explore how the natural environment can be translated into visual, sonic, material or digital forms, sharing diverse perspectives on what it means to make with and through place.
This workshop will have an afterlife as ‘Synthesising Landscapes (Part 2)’, an interactive live coding performance by artists Aakarsh Singh and Ahmed Bilal on Sunday, June 1 at 6pm. Participants of the workshop are invited and encouraged to attend.
This programme is organised by the Assembly 2024-2025 members Ayesha Fernandes and Ioanna Orphanide as part of the 2025 Youth Takeover.
Ayesha Fernandes is a visual artist and designer and a member of the 2024-2025 cohort of the Assembly. She explores the material qualities of unconventional mediums by taking inspiration from nature and her surrounding environment. With a B.Sc in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah, her work often merges digital and analogue processes.
Ioanna Orphanide is a member of the 2024-2025 cohort of the Assembly. She is (1) a student of literature and (2) a poet. She is currently working on getting used to ‘artist’ as a title, one that she cannot help but hyphenate to reflect her background: hence, (3) commuter-artist. Commuting spatially between the Eastern Mediterranean and Arabian Gulf, conceptually between the post-colonial and historically-modern, and materially between the analog and born-digital (humanities and more). She also loves tea and confabulating excessively in multiple languages.
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