IN CONVERSATION:
ELHAM ESHRAGHIAN-HAAKANSSON & SAMANTHA TAYLOR
ONLINE
THURS OCT 15,
7:00 - 7.40PM
FACEBOOK LIVE
In this online conversation facilitated by artist Anindita Banerjee, Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson and Samantha Taylor will dive deep into their current exhibitions at Platform, broader artistic practices and the diasporic experience in art-making. Both artists explore transcultural practice within an Australian context, using various media to explore the notion of a third culture - a space in which culture combines and intermingles between the Diaspora and the country of migration - and unpack what it means to be on the periphery of belonging.
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Anindita Banerjee is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ballarat, working in video, textiles, ephemeral installations and visual art juxtaposed with performance. She describes herself as a “twice uprooted Indian” and the memories of ritualistic ceremonies and mark-makings and reconstruction of them informs her practice. She is pursuing a creative practice-led PhD at Deakin University, and her area of interest is the identity of the cultural other and their perpetual search for home.
Samantha Taylor is a Singaporean-Australian multidisciplinary artist who currently resides in Geelong, Victoria. Her practice involves installation, sculptural objects and photographic documentation to address the importance of preserving cultural traditions. Through extensive research, Samantha examines transcultural identity and the intrinsic urge to collect and archive sentimental entities.
Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson is a Bahá’í video artist based in Perth, Western Australia. Through her practice, she explores the Iranian diaspora within the Australian community and uncovers her family’s experience of displacement during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Eshraghian-Haakansson’s research examines the intergenerational dialogue between the first (those who were displaced) and second generation (children of those displaced) in an attempt to understand her mother’s experience of displacement and escape.
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