Crosstown Arts resident artists Sepideh Dashti, Joann Self Selvidge, and Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo will present artist talks in a virtual event.
Free and open to the public
Artist Bios
Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti
Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti is an emerging interdisciplinary artist. Her recent practice is related to exploring her body by creating performance, video, photography, and installations. Through multiple discourses and contexts, she is always rediscovering, reinventing, and reinterpreting her Iranian identity as a pivotal point for exploring her work in multiple and heterogeneous contexts.
Joann Self Selvidge
Joann Self Selvidge is an award-winning filmmaker whose documentaries explore issues of work, creativity, agency, and justice. Since 2002, she has produced, directed, and edited more than two dozen projects, including features (Juvenile, See the Keepers, The Art Academy, The WLOK Story), shorts (Robert, Viola, Voices of Jericho, Nude Photos!), series (The Juvenile Project, The Arts Interviews), and multimedia installations (Inaugurate the Resistance).
Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo
Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo’s sculptural work utilizes the possibilities within hybridity to speak of a hypothetical place where humans have evolved into hybrid beings with animals, insects, and discarded human-made materials. The resulting physical evolution of this voluntary merging challenges social discomfort around bodies that are not easily categorized by blurring the boundaries between animal and human, living and dead, animate and inanimate. Her work aims to disrupt notions of human hierarchy, testing the phenomenon between humanity, mammality and technology in a chimeric future.
