Past Projects (2001-2014)
"Pink/Longing" Installed ©Joseph Shahadi
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INSTALLATION
"Pink/Longing" 2011 An installation of photographs from the series “TV Eros,” which features images captured from the 80s teen film Pretty in Pink--Molly (Tears) and Beneath the Darkness of His Outspread Hair (Ducky) —at the Callahan Gallery of St. Francis College for "The Art of Brooklyn" show. |
INSTALLATION
"The Torture Commissioned By The Emperor For The Good Of The People"
2010
This installation was made of piles of offal (lamb hearts and testes) sourced from a halal butcher, pierced with hundreds of straight pins, sewing and curved upholstery needles and wrapped in black thread. It was exhibited as part of the "HOME-LAND" show at Brooklyn’s 49B Studio.
"The Torture Commissioned By The Emperor For The Good Of The People"
2010
This installation was made of piles of offal (lamb hearts and testes) sourced from a halal butcher, pierced with hundreds of straight pins, sewing and curved upholstery needles and wrapped in black thread. It was exhibited as part of the "HOME-LAND" show at Brooklyn’s 49B Studio.
"Self Portrait..." Installed
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INSTALLATION
"Self Portrait With DNA (Sand N*gger)" 2010 A 20”x30” digital C-print self-portrait smeared with the artist's hair and semen to create a beard on its surface. This was exhibited as part of the “Gutted" show at Los Angeles Contemporary Projects (LACE). |
PERFORMANCE
"Welcome To Paradise: A Requiem"
2008
This performance was about the change of meaning in loaded terms like “nation”, “citizen”, “war”, “torture” and others post 9/11 was developed with a group of international, multi-media artists and performed in Oslo, Norway at Kanonhallen, a former munitions storage facility built by Soviet prisoners of war.
"Welcome To Paradise: A Requiem"
2008
This performance was about the change of meaning in loaded terms like “nation”, “citizen”, “war”, “torture” and others post 9/11 was developed with a group of international, multi-media artists and performed in Oslo, Norway at Kanonhallen, a former munitions storage facility built by Soviet prisoners of war.
PERFORMANCE
"No One Is Sleeping/Everyone Is Sleeping"
2006
This solo consisted of a painstakingly lip-synched performance of Luciano Pavarotti’s version of the aria “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s Turandot with the gradual revelation of hand lettered signs in English and Arabic, spelling out the anti-war slogan “We will not be silent.”
"No One Is Sleeping/Everyone Is Sleeping"
2006
This solo consisted of a painstakingly lip-synched performance of Luciano Pavarotti’s version of the aria “Nessun Dorma” from Puccini’s Turandot with the gradual revelation of hand lettered signs in English and Arabic, spelling out the anti-war slogan “We will not be silent.”
FILM
"Sittings"
2005-2006
This series of experimental short films were made from hundreds of still portraits of artists talking about their work.
"Sittings"
2005-2006
This series of experimental short films were made from hundreds of still portraits of artists talking about their work.
FILM
"Renee Dancing"
2005
This experimental dance film was made from hundreds of still images taken in sequence as dancer/choreographer Renee Brozic performed her work Void-Filler on site at the Silo Project/Dancenow NYC.
"Renee Dancing"
2005
This experimental dance film was made from hundreds of still images taken in sequence as dancer/choreographer Renee Brozic performed her work Void-Filler on site at the Silo Project/Dancenow NYC.
PERFORMANCE
"I Feel Love"
2005
This duet was a silent, three-minute version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet performed in stocking masks and set entirely to the music of Donna Summer. It was performed at the Silo Project.
"I Feel Love"
2005
This duet was a silent, three-minute version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet performed in stocking masks and set entirely to the music of Donna Summer. It was performed at the Silo Project.
PERFORMANCE
"Patriot Act"
2004-2006
This performance was a vaudeville made from the text of the USA Patriot Act, and performed with The Lovely And Talented Miss Toni Silver. It was performed all over New York City, at the Culture Project, the Ohio Theater and the American Livingroom Festival at HERE, regionally at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry and Philadelphia’s Nexus gallery, and internationally at the Projekt Theater in Vienna, Austria.
"Patriot Act"
2004-2006
This performance was a vaudeville made from the text of the USA Patriot Act, and performed with The Lovely And Talented Miss Toni Silver. It was performed all over New York City, at the Culture Project, the Ohio Theater and the American Livingroom Festival at HERE, regionally at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry and Philadelphia’s Nexus gallery, and internationally at the Projekt Theater in Vienna, Austria.
Time-O-Rama Postcard ©Joseph Shahadi
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PERFORMANCE
"Time-O-Rama" 2002 This performance was based on the way different experiences—grief, love, sex and war—alter the perception of time, and vice-versa. It featured original music by Spiff Wiegand of the Randy Bandits and was performed at Manhattan Theater Source. |