Rensselaer iEAR graduate EMPAC Artist in Residence
October 3-10, 2022
Interdisciplinary artist Jude Abu Zaineh is in residence at EMPAC to experiment with a spatial-visual installation using patterned textiles and video projections.
The textile material originates from a site-specific installation at the Ontario Science Centre in collaboration with MOCA Toronto, developed during a cross-institutional residency in 2018-2019. The pattern itself is derived from images created using a traditional Palestinian meal, maqlouba, growing, decaying, and changing in petri dishes. In this exploration, Abu Zaineh questions; what kind of planetary space would a microbiome occupy? What does digestive memory feel like? What would our ancestral foods that we digest tell us from beyond? How do we experience interspecies relationships between human-microorganisms?
The generous support for this Work-in-Progress is provided by:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Ontario Science Centre
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto
BAT LAB Center for Biotechnology
INCUBATOR Art Lab
Photos by Michael Valiquette