Satellite Telefizyoon

Video Installation, 2014


Satellite Telefizyoon takes all of its visual content from a popular 1987 Egyptian television quiz show titled Hawl El Alam (Around the World). In the show the iconic singer/ actress Sherihan would appropriate the costume, song, and dialect of an unnamed country and conclude by asking her audience to guess which country she was representing. 

Focusing on the positioning of Egyptian women in relationship to their European, South American, Asian, and African sisters, Sherihan is made to quotes academics Laura Bier, Timothy Mitchell, and Anthony Shay through falsified subtitles to provide a brief history of Egyptian conceptions of modernity from the 1950-80’s. 

Presented at: 

Proximities
Hamilton Arts Inc.
Hamilton, Canada 
2016

Art Gallery of Mississauga
Mississauga, Canada
2016 

Incident Light: Gendered Artifacts and Traces Illuminated
in the Archives

Curated by Leila Pourtavaf
Blackwood Gallery
Toronto, Canada
2014

Generous support for the installation at Incident Light was provided by:

Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant 2014

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