TRUTH, TABOO, TRAUMA AND TELLING: EXPLORED FROM A QUEER, MIDDLE EASTERN PERSPECTIVE

Presented by Sammaneh Pourshafighi

Hosted by Incinerator
19/09/2020
Talk #94

Image courtesy of Sammaneh Pourshafighi

SAMMANEH POURSHAFIGHI Presents: “Truth, Taboo, Trauma and Telling: Explored from a Queer, Middle Eastern perspective.”

Presented in collaboration with Incinerator Gallery, and the incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change

This talk will explore one artist and writer’s exploration of the complicated, and at times fluid, nature of truth and taboo in relationship to the trauma of diaspora. Pourshafighi will unpack her personal attempts to document autobiographical events that have gone undocumented for social/political/ cultural reasons, or lost in the process of displacement as a Queer Muslim from a refugee Persian background.

SAMMANEH POURSHAFIGHI is a Queer genderfluid Muslim who arrived in Australia as a refugee after the Iranian Revolution and grew up on the problematic paradise of the Gold Coast. Her ancestral tribes originate from Oureh, Gilan, and Kurdistan. Poursh is a hereditary witch, producer and multidisciplinary artist. Her work plays with identity, ritual, the Body, diaspora, Middle Eastern and Western histories, and comedy as a way to address trauma.