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Performance in Profile 2010 - British Council - Arts

Qasim Riza Shaheen

T +44 (0)7939 132902
E qasim@qasimrizashaheen.com
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SIZE OF COMPANY
2–3 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director/Artist

Qasim Riza Shaheen

ARTISTIC POLICY
Qasim Riza Shaheen facilitates individual and group creative expressions through finding alternative ways of sharing memories and experiential expertise in order to produce high quality visual and performance art. Notions of empowerment through the collective voice are central to his practice.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘With this quiet, beautiful, careful and courageous exhibition, Qasim Riza Shaheen is inviting us to step back into that closet, to wonder all over again at its forbidden pleasures, its colours and its multitude of embroidered, jewelled and painted possibilities.’ Neil Bartlett OBE, 2007 ()

‘It is a rare artist that can make you want to cry, then laugh and then question your own politic all within one performance.’ Ronald Fraser-Munroe, K3 Media ()

‘The work becomes something of a collaborative celebration of social difference and sartorial inversion.’ Guardian Unlimited ()

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
(Video Art Installation) Six gallery-based video installation films. (4–7 min loop.)

(Installation-based performance) One-on-one, one-minute encounter. Includes a live video installation and audience participation element. (Limited capacity of 75 participants per two-hour show.)

(Performance lecture) A performance lecture, a performative game of pass the parcel and a mock group therapy session.

WRAP-AROUND
All productions can include workshops, Artist in Conversation and a residency around the context of the invitation. Young adults upwards.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2009 Ireland (), Spain ()
2008 Belgium (), Pakistan ()
2007 Pakistan ()

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All productions available for touring

CONTACT FOR INTERNATIONAL TOURING

Qasim Riza Shaheen

T +44 (0)7939 132902
E qasim@qasimrizashaheen.com
W qasimrizashaheen.com

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