Artist Report: Aphra Shemza - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1387300865 ISBN 13 : 9781387300860

Editeur : Lulu.com, 2023

Synopsis

We are thrilled to share with you this very first Artist Report, which focuses on the work of UK-based multimedia artist Aphra Shemza. A natural extension of the CSPA's exploration of sustainability and the arts in our publication the Quarterly, Artist Reports focus on a single artist and provide an in-depth look at their practice and the way they engage with sustainability.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Aphra Shemza is a UK-based multimedia artist. She is the granddaughter of the well-known abstract painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. Inspired by her grandfather, her work explores Modernism, her Islamic cultural heritage, sustainable practice and creating art for all. As an artist and activist, she finds ambitious ways to fuse methodologies from the past with new innovations in technology to imagine what the role of art could be in the future. Shemza combines abstraction with traditional sculpting techniques and technology to create her work. As a sculptor her main medium is light, which she manipulates to create works that change over time. Handmade and bespoke interactive circuits are embedded within the pieces and this creates work which responds to the viewer or the space around it. Just as abstraction was said to be a 'universal language for the masses', Shemza has created a new visual language for a contemporary audience - one that explores the impact and legacy of technology on our world. --- Editor Chantal Bilodeau is a Montreal-born, New York-based playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of storytelling and the climate crisis. She is the founding artistic director of the Arts & Climate Initiative, where she has spearheaded initiatives for over a decade, getting theatre and educational communities, as well as audiences in the U.S. and abroad, to engage in climate action through programming that includes live events, talks, publications, workshops, national and international convenings, and a worldwide distributed theatre festival. She curates the HowlRound Theatre Commons's blog series Theatre in the Age of Climate Change, has written for American Theatre Magazine and Canadian Theatre Review, and contributed to several academic volumes including most recently, International Climate Protection (Springer) and Extraordinary Partnerships: How the Arts and Humanities are Transforming Society (Lever Press). She is the editor of three anthologies of short plays, one of which earned her an Honorable Mention from the Patrick O'Neill Award for Best Edited Collection given by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. She is currently writing a series of eight plays - the Arctic Cycle - that look at the social and environmental changes taking place in the eight Arctic states. In 2019, was named one of "8 Trailblazers Who Are Changing the Climate Conversation" by Audubon Magazine

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lulu.com
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1387300865
• ISBN 13: 9781387300860
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
• Éditeur: Bilodeau Chantal, Baxendale Catherine
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: HACHETTE LIVRE SA; https://www.hachette.fr/; ; 1 AVENUE GUTENBERG; MAUREPAS CEDEX; 78319; France