Beiroet, Libanon, 1981
woonachtig en werkzaam in Amsterdam sinds 2003
t: 0031642746470
a: Magalhaensstraat 14-2, 1057 RV, Amsterdam, Nederland
2005-2006 Masters in Beeldende Kunst, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
2003-2004 Researcher in Beeldende Kunst, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
1998-2002 Bachelor in Grafisch Ontwerpen, American University of Beirut
Nov ’09- Feb ‘10, Iaspis, Stockholm, Zweden
Feb ’11, Kirunatopia project: Konsthall C en Goethe Institue, Kiruna, Zweden
April 2012, Van Doorne, Advocaten Kantoor, Amsterdam
Aug -Oct 2012, Institute Buena Bista, Curaçao
Jan-Jun 2012, Curating Reality: invesigative journalism, Sandberg Instituut@Media Fonds, Amsterdam
2012 Tug of War, happening with 250 inhabitants of Kiruna, Sweden.
2011 The Secret Powers of Identity, Security and Self-Respect in Troubling Times, met Maya Bekan, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2010 What if, if I take your place? Iaspis, Stockholm
2009 Where We Are Not, LAU Theater festival, Beyrouth
2008 Where We Are Not, Project Perform festival, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Where We Are Not, Literature festival, OBA, Amsterdam
2007 Where We Are Not, The Facility Symposium 3, Metropolitan University, London
Where We Are Not, “Il faut brûler Pour Briller” festival, Espace d´art Contemporain
Eugène Beadouin, Parijs
2006 Where We Are Not, Tent, Rotterdam
’A ticket to a place that became a person…’, locatie theater, Over Het IJ Festival, Amsterdam
2005 Still Still in The City: explorations behind closed eyes, public interventions in Rotterdam
2011 Mustapha/Vincenzo, video, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück en Dumbo video
festival in New York.
2012 Kirunatopia: between Projections and Encounters, Amsterdam/Kiruna.
2010 In Pursuit of New Beginnings, editor: Sinziana Ravini, Iaspis, Stockholm
Where We Are Not, in collaboration with A. Cordero and J. Fabius, in Notation, issue on notation in performance art and dance, Amsterdam
2009 Finding ‘a now’ to inhabit: between the performative in life and professional practice,
Al Raida: issue on Arab Female Performance Artists, Beirut
2008 Resonant Bodies, Voices, Memories, Rotterdam
2005 Why Marco Polo Can Never Be A Citizen?, Production of private and public spheres,
PAGES publication, issue #4, Rotterdam
2012 Kirunatopia: In The Shadows of The Future, Umea Museum, Sweden
2010 New Beginnings, Iaspis, Stockholm
Living Objects, Broedplaats de Vlugt, Amsterdam
Rijkdom van Nederland, Stads Schouwburg, Amsterdam
Rijkdom van Nederland, Women Inc. Festival, Amsterdam
2009 Zina Rocco tales, Tam Tam festival, Stads Schouwburg, Amsterdam
Zina Rocco tales, Film Museum, Amsterdam
Living Objects, de Balie, Amsterdam
Expeditie New West, Geuzenveld, Amsterdam
2008 Wie noemt mij mij?, verhalen uit ‘Bos en Lommer’, Amsterdam
2006 ‘Wherein Certain Persons,…’, afstudeer expositie van de Piet Zwart Instituut, Tent, Rotterdam
2005 ‘How To Send a Message’, curator Milica Tomic, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
2004 OPEN: On Nothingness, Arcadia Art Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2010 Memories of White, video installatie, de Balie, Amsterdam
Zina neemt de wijk in Beelden, video installatie, NNT, Groningen, NL
2012 Curating Performance, seminar en workshop (Jan t/m Mei), University
of Amsterdam, Masters in Performance and Theater studies MAIPR program.
2011 Performative Identities, lezing, The American University of Beirut, en
Universiteit van Maastricht, NL
2010 The text as an Act, gesprek met de filosoof Cecilia Sjoholm, Iaspis, Stockholm
-Resonant Memories, workshop/ studio visits, Konstfack: Masters Beeldendekunst, Stockholm
-Stories of a suburb, lezing, Architectuur Afdeling, Universiteit van Stockholm
-Edward Said: Academics, Activism, Art- symposium, UVA, Amsterdam
2009 We, myself and I, 6 weken beweging workshop voor 12 migranten vrouwen, Ruma Khami
center, Amsterdam
–Movement & Voice expression, 6 weken workshop, voor 20 migranten vrouwen, Stichting
Vonk, Zeeburg, Amsterdam
-Police agents making portraits of ‘the other’, 3 dagen workshop, Zina platform in
Zeeburg, Amsterdam
‘08-‘10 Zina Platform, Maker, Zina’s artistieke leider Adelheid Roosen, De Balie, Amsterdam
2008 Public Amusement: culturele platform, Maker/ researcher, Amsterdam
-Journalism into the Intimate, gast docent, ‘Block’: “Who is I?”, DASARTS, Amsterdam
-Public amusement, workshop, Film project, bij Dock, Geuzenveld, Amsterdam
2007 Shifting Identities: anecdotes, lezing, Buro #4 Emigree, Hogeschool voor de Kunst, Utrecht
-Performance research, 3 dagen workshop, Theater afdeling, LAU, Beyrouth
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