Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Cairo, Egypt
Arts & Culture Program leader 2015 - 2016 Teaching Fellow 2016 - 2018
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2017 - 18
My Body is My BodyIn collaboration with Sara Elkamel
In this course, we use our bodies as a starting point for creative practice. We start off with the assumption that at some point in our lives, we have been exiled from our bodies — accidentally or by force. To bridge that assumed estrangement, we begin to probe our relationships to our physical bodies through employing both visual and writing tools. Students write and make art about, with, and perhaps on, their bodies. This course promotes an interdisciplinary approach to creative inquiry and practice in the attempt to explore the notion of exile from one’s own body. Assigned theoretical texts are designed to inform the production of creative work, whereby discussion and feedback are a crucial part of the journey. We also be examining artwork and writing by local and international artists. We translate ideas back and forth between visual expression and written language, and we experiment with a range of practices including embodied writing, image-making and performance. More info on the CILAS website.
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