STIR is a performance culminating from a series of collaborative workshops featuring dance, music, and video presented by the Blackwood Gallery at UTM. STIR is a multimedia dance/music/video presentation by Sampradaya Dance Creations in partnership with Toronto-based artist Faisal Anwar and the DJ collective Quadrasonic. The resulting mashup will be presented improvisationally and live. Mashups are a form of remixing, using varied sources of sound and video, both found and captured, combined in a dynamic way to produce a multi-visionary and multi-layered work. The participants in STIR arise from different cultural, creative, and professional backgrounds, which renders this mashup project especially pertinent.
Mar 19, 2009 – Mar 19, 2009
Past
STIR
Multimedia performance by Faisal Anwar, Sampradaya Dance Creations (Lata Pada, Nandini Krishna), Quadrasonic (Boris Castellanos, Alvaro Castellanos, Ulysses Castellanos)
Performance Documentation
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Performance Documentation
- Artist
- Faisal Anwar
Faisal Anwar is a digital media artist living in Toronto/Pakistan with diverse backgrounds in theatre, film, media, interactive art, and graphic design. He is the founder and director of an interactive art and design studio called DigitalDip and an inter-arts platform called NewKulture Art Space. Anwar’s art practice explores sociopolitical spaces, which intrigues the mind and emotion by multiple layers of participatory experiences. His projects often bring together art, culture and technology in an odd configuration to explore perceptions towards architectural space, surveillance and social interactivity in modern urban cultures. He has shown and performed nationally and internationally. Anwar is a 2004 graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's Habitat-LAB Interactive Arts and Entertainment Program and did his Bachelor in graphic design from the National College of Arts Pakistan in 1996. He is one of the pioneers of The Puppeteers theatre group in Pakistan and worked on many performances addressing social awareness in Pakistan. Faisal volunteered on the Programming Committee of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) (06 – 07) and taught courses in 'Interactive Design' at Centennial College, Toronto. Anwar has directed six short films and videos which were part of various festivals in Canada and abroad, such as Monitor 3 South Asian Film and Video presented by SAVAC Toronto, Pollution presented by INTERart, Romania, aluCine Toronto Latin Festival, shortsnonstop.com and at TPW Gallery Toronto. His new film, City Revenge, was screened at the Toronto Urban Film Festival.
In collaboration with:
Sampradaya Dance Creations
Lata Pada, Nandini Krishna
Quadrasonic
Boris Castellanos, Alvaro Castellano, Ulysses Castellanos
Sampradaya Dance Creations
Lata Pada, Nandini Krishna
Quadrasonic
Boris Castellanos, Alvaro Castellano, Ulysses Castellanos
STIR is supported by The Ontario Arts Council, The Trillium Foundation and Artszone, part of U of T Celebration of the Arts.
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