Gita Hashemi
| Gita Hashemi | |
|---|---|
| Native name | گیتا هاشمی |
| Born |
1961 Shiraz, Iran |
| Education | Tehran University School of Fine Arts, Iranian Calligraphy Institute, CSUN, York University |
| Notable work | Of Shifting Shadows, Ephemeral Monument, Headquarters: Pathology of an Ouster, Passages Trilogy, Declarations diptych |
| Website | http://gitaha.net |
Gita Hashemi (Persian: گیتا هاشمی, b. 1961) is an Iranian-born artist who lives and works from Toronto, Canada. She is known for work juxtaposes history and present, political and personal and local and global. Her work often draws on language as both visual and narrative element, and includes installation, video, and performance art and often includes collaborative, participatory and interactive strategies.[1] She is the first Iranian artist to perform calligraphy as a live art which she refers to as embodied writing. She was an early practitioner of Net art and Digital art (early-1990s to mid-2000s). Her narrative CD-R Of Shifting Shadows: Revisiting the 1979 Iranian Revolution through an Exilic Journey in History and Memory is a comprehensive artistic account of the Iranian Revolution and has been exhibited and reviewed widely.[2] She originated the revisionary maxim, "The personal is poetic, the poetic is political, the political is personal."
External links
- Gitaha: Many Worlds in One http://gitaha.net
- Body Precedes Inscription: On the work of Gita Hashemi by Heather Hermant: http://www.vozavoz.ca/aresponse/gita-hashemi
- Review: The Idea of Freedom by Gita Hashemi, written by Haleh Niazmand http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/es/e-misferica-111-gesto-decolonial/niazmand
- Review: Of Shifting Shadows by Gita Hashemi, written by Mike Leggett http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/leon.2003.36.1.86#.WC4maaIrLdQ
References
- ↑ "gita hashemi گیتا هاشمی". gitaha.net. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ↑ Mottahedeh, Negar (2003-05-23). "After-Images of a Revolution". Radical History Review. 86 (1): 183–192. ISSN 1534-1453.