Arshia Fatima Haq, Distinguished Visiting Artist, to present immersive artist installation

About the event

Arshia Fatima Haq, the 2020 Jo Hockenhull Distinguished Visiting Artist, will present a performance/installation entitled “Sama: The Divine Listening Room” on March 4.

The WSU community and public are invited to this immersive artist installation.

Through social practice, video, sound, and performance, Arshia Fatima Haq (born in Hyderabad, India, based in Los Angeles, California) works with archives and aesthetic production rooted in the Muslim world that have been marginalized both within conservative Islam and in the Western imagination. Through conceptualized feminist modes that stem from the complexities of inhabiting multiple personas – woman, Muslim, immigrant, citizen – Haq weaves together layers of personal narrative, myth, and shared historical memory to evoke an alternative devotional space of catharsis, celebration and resistance to orthodoxies.

The 2020 Jo Hockenhull Distinguished Visiting Artist events are sponsored by the WSU Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Department of Fine Arts, the Women*s Center and the Center for Arts & Humanities.

When: March 4, 2020, 4-7 p.m.

Location: Fine Arts Building, Gallery 2