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Ibrahim Quraishi (PK/NL)
Ibrahim Quraishi belongs to a new generation of makers challenging our understanding of visual performativity and its relationship to the broader cultural perspective. As one of the recipients of the first Ö1 Prix Jardin d'Europe Prize in 2008 for his Installation "Islamic Violins" at ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Quraishi consciously examines the dynamics of "migration", dispossession and cohabitation within the highly rigid socio-political spheres of imagined communities inside the contours of the visual and performing arts context, while freely playing with the tensions between the complexity of the real and our longing for simplicity. Defined by a nomadic existence, Quraishi divides his time between New York and Amsterdam while escaping the conventional rules of engagement in researching, teaching and sometimes creating works for spaces like Mass MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), National Museum of Singapore, The Kitchen (New York), Japan Foundation (Tokyo), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), iDANS Istanbul, Springdance (Utrecht), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival New York), Frascati (Amsterdam), Asia Society (New York), Biennale Bonn 08 a.o.
On the level of research, besides working on a series of micro projects on Imposed Architecture, and ritual performances in South and Central Asia at Beacon House University Lahore and National School of Drama (New Delhi), Quraishi has participated in the Open Society Institutes Intercultural Dialogue Seminar in Duchanbe, Tajikistan addressing the relationship of civil society and cultural performativity while simultaneously working with artists from Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Kirgezia. He was invited as guest speaker and lecturer at Universität der Künste Berlin, SNDO (The Dutch School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam), AHK in Amsterdam, The Berkshire Conference at Williams College Clark Arts Institute (MA), International Center for Photography (New York), Universiteit Utrecht, Vera List Center at The New School New York, Kyoto University for Art & Design, PSi Conference at Brown University (RI), Montclair College (New Jersey), MQ-Tanzquartier Wien, SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Université de Paris 8, Université de St. Denis, C.R.O.U.S. de Paris, Gerrit Rietveld Acadamie (Amsterdam) and The Arab Dance Forum (Beirut). Quraishi is a former student of Edward W. Said at Columbia University, New York.
On the level of research, besides working on a series of micro projects on Imposed Architecture, and ritual performances in South and Central Asia at Beacon House University Lahore and National School of Drama (New Delhi), Quraishi has participated in the Open Society Institutes Intercultural Dialogue Seminar in Duchanbe, Tajikistan addressing the relationship of civil society and cultural performativity while simultaneously working with artists from Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Kirgezia. He was invited as guest speaker and lecturer at Universität der Künste Berlin, SNDO (The Dutch School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam), AHK in Amsterdam, The Berkshire Conference at Williams College Clark Arts Institute (MA), International Center for Photography (New York), Universiteit Utrecht, Vera List Center at The New School New York, Kyoto University for Art & Design, PSi Conference at Brown University (RI), Montclair College (New Jersey), MQ-Tanzquartier Wien, SEAD Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Université de Paris 8, Université de St. Denis, C.R.O.U.S. de Paris, Gerrit Rietveld Acadamie (Amsterdam) and The Arab Dance Forum (Beirut). Quraishi is a former student of Edward W. Said at Columbia University, New York.
