300 MICRO-FICTIONS

20 May - 6 June 2020

Solo Residency

Amaara Raheem was part of PIVOT, a discussion between artists / arts organisations who have had to pivot their art practice to come up with alternative creative solutions in-light of changing opportunities at this time.

Amaara Raheem

… I don’t know everything is so strange right now this came out of the blue and I said yes, YES wholeheartedly because it seemed like a gift; a place to go that was other than my small apartment into the city again and into this building again which I haven’t really visited since 1996; I remember climbing up onto the roof then and kissing a boy up there of course we can’t go up there now something about security something about cameras but what about kissing on rooftops what about dancing and using the sky; I’m writing and resting and walking and inviting people in and closing the door and shivering in the cold and remembering who I was once and might be again and I’m thinking about building(s), about structure(s), about the relationship between movement and writing, about constructing ground(s), about …

Amaara Raheem is a Sri Lankan born Australian grown dance-artist who lived fifteen years in London. She works in collaboration, even when working alone, in solitude. What she means by this is that she’s intermeshed with processes, histories, memories, relations, the building. Currently Amaara’s part of an online dance art-work ‘Satelliser’ with eleven other womxn dancers worldwide in conversation with choreographer Janine Harrington (UK) winner of Bonnie Bird Choreographic Award, 2020. Amaara is completing a practice-led PhD at School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University.

IMAGES | Amaara Raheem, 300 micro-fictions, BLINDSIDE 2020 | Courtesy the artist