Housing a Home: Borrowed Views is a community centered installation project that explores the notion of public/ private psaces through issues related to home, community and consumption within the context and future of Griffintown’s development. The project brings together 5-8 participants to conceive of and collaborate in the process of building a ‘home’ using recycled materials gathered from the neighbourhood. Housing a Home: Borrowed Views does not recreate a singular concept of an ideal house. Rather, the project aims to convey a sense of a shared, evolving and imaginative space by examining the poetic and spatial relationship between a city’s residents and its public/private spaces.
The site of the installation is located on a small parcel of green land located between the Bonaventure Expressway and the CN viaduct. The land is being generously donated by the owners of the site, Sami and Roland Hakim.
Housing a Home will begin to evolve on site in July 2011.
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Housing a Home : Borrowed Views de Riaz Mehmood crée un espace imaginatif partagé et évolutif à Griffintown en explorant la relation spatiale et poétique entre les résidents de la ville et ses espaces publics et privés.
Bio
Riaz Mehmood est un artiste multidisciplinaire d’origine pakistanaise. Il a terminé le programme Intégration des médias du Ontario College of Art and Design en 2005 après avoir obtenu un baccalauréat en Ingénierie civile à Peshawar. Ses oeuvres englobent une grande variété de pratiques, y compris la performance, la vidéo et la photographie, et elles explorent des thématiques liées à l’identité, à l’histoire et aux médias. À ce jour, Riaz termine sa maîtrise en beaux-arts à l’Université de Windsor.
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Riaz Mehmood is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Pakistan. After obtaining a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology in Peshawar, Riaz went on to complete a diploma in the Integrated Media program at Ontario College of Art and Design in 2005. His artistic oeuvre encompasses a range of practices including performance, video and photography. These works have explored a number of issues related to identity, history and media. Riaz has also been involved with a number of artist-run centres and served on the boards of SAVAC and articule. His works have been shown internationally, including the US, Canada, Pakistan and Indonesia. Riaz is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Windsor.
