Featured artist: Levon Kafafian
"....Levon Kafafian creates tactile and sensory works on the threshold of transition, applying the process of weaving beyond thread into visual, performative and social practice. Levon practices in the Detroit community through the use of textile craft, ancestral lifeways and magical experience.
Throughout Sept.-Oct. 2019, Levon Kafafian will be a resident artist of AANM's Artists + Residents program. They will be using AANM’s historical archives to research ways of life across Southwest Asia during the late Ottoman era in conjunction with AANM’s library to research future-facing narratives for a new graphic novel, Portal Fire. The novel tells the story of an orphan named Maro, their journey through old prophecies and the team of archaeologists who begin excavating remnants of Maro’s city 1,000 years later. Portal Fire is a story born of a desire to see future-facing/speculative narratives and queer representation in graphic arts media depicting Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) cultures outside of an Orientalist lens.
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"....Levon Kafafian creates tactile and sensory works on the threshold of transition, applying the process of weaving beyond thread into visual, performative and social practice. Levon practices in the Detroit community through the use of textile craft, ancestral lifeways and magical experience.
Throughout Sept.-Oct. 2019, Levon Kafafian will be a resident artist of AANM's Artists + Residents program. They will be using AANM’s historical archives to research ways of life across Southwest Asia during the late Ottoman era in conjunction with AANM’s library to research future-facing narratives for a new graphic novel, Portal Fire. The novel tells the story of an orphan named Maro, their journey through old prophecies and the team of archaeologists who begin excavating remnants of Maro’s city 1,000 years later. Portal Fire is a story born of a desire to see future-facing/speculative narratives and queer representation in graphic arts media depicting Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) cultures outside of an Orientalist lens.
To read the full story, please click here.
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