Learned Behaviour

Learned Behaviour es una presentación multimedia de las hermanas Golboo y Golnesa Amani. La presentación comparte una serie fluida de cuadros que buscan interactuar de forma crítica con las enseñanzas culturales adquiridas en su juventud en una comunidad diaspórica. Como primera generación de inmigrantes, mucho del conocimiento de su cultura es producto de enseñanzas por parte de sus padres y de su comunidad, quienes intentan preservar las tradiciones ancestrales y costumbres por medio de grupos ad hoc y de las enseñanzas recibidas en casa.

30 de septiembre, 2023 a las 19:30

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Golboo Amani is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator and curator working with performance and social practice. Golboo produces sites for aesthetic intervention by utilizing ready-made and familiar social engagements as a point of entry in their practice. Golboo’s work often examines their relationship to learning by addressing the conditions of knowledge production that render epistemic violence as invisible, insignificant and benign. As a result, Golboo’s works often experiment with collective agency and egalitarian epistemology by producing sites where one gets to play with the conditions of learning and knowing. 

Golnesa Amani (aka. Ola Minou) is an artist and educator working with dance and movement practices informed by Iranian folk, classical ballet, and performance art. Golnesa’s choreography and performances blend burlesque with contemporary dance elements, theatrics, as well as traditional Iranian mannerisms, music and narratives as an embodying act of preservation. Golnesa transforms the stage into a space for learning, a platform for reclamation, reconfiguration, and communing for Iranian diaspora/Canadian settlers who may also intersect with marginalized social identities.