Know Thy Neighbour #3 artist focus: Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson
Over the next weeks, we’ll be introducing our Know Thy Neighbour #3 artists, along with their community partners.
Know Thy Neighbour #3, presented by Spaced with the UWA School of Design, is a provocation to the familiarity of place, asking communities to step outside of familiar engagements and locations; to seek out scenarios or contexts that defamiliarize and recontextualise "the local" for audiences, communities, or the artists themselves and ask how we can meaningfully engage in the making of our cities.
Here, we introduce Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson who will be working at the Victoria Park Community Centre.
Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson is an award-winning Iranian Australian Bahá’i video artist, researcher, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her research navigates the sharing of stories, understanding their essential role in healing and mental wellbeing in response to traumatic contexts. Working in multi-channel video art installations, she intersects theatrical and cinematic performance with film-poetry, archives and sound, seeking to document as a witness, cultural stories that transcend beyond a locality into the human condition.
As the recipient of the 2022 Forrest Research Foundation Fellowship, Eshraghian-Haakansson’s commitment to the Know Thy Neighbour #3 program will deepen her creative inquiry into using new digital technologies to enhance social and participatory connections.
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Elham Eshraghian–Haakansson.
