Kickstart showing: Anvár
Anvár is a new work meaningfully connecting to spiritual identity and place by Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson in collaboration with emerging and professional Iranian-Australian artists; Khashayar Salmanzadeh, Sholeh Pirmorady, Ashkaan Hadi and Asha Kiani to visually realize an immersive video art prototype utilizing projection mapping, illustrations, cinema, and sound.
Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson
Engagement: LAB.01Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson is an Iranian-Australian researcher and video artist. Her arena of work centers itself within communal and collaborative social practice. Her research navigates inherited stories and post-memory felt by her displaced community through the poetics of the moving image. She invites viewers to become the 'witness' rather than the 'passive bystander', examining empathy in film-poems, and immersive multi-media experiences facilitating a critical discussion surrounding empathy, custodianship, compassion, and social change. The cornerstone of my practice examines ways to build empathy through the art of storytelling and immersive film-poetry, particularly in our understanding of communal wellbeing and dis/connection.