Intermediary Regions

As part of her artistic research, MMAG resident Nour Bishouty led an experimental research and discussion group. A loose conglomeration of texts, images, and objects was examined through reading and writing activities in order to visualize forms of peripheral, poetic, non-linear, and marginalized knowledge practices as sites of 'other knowledge' that challenge the prevailing paradigms of knowledge systems. This was a process-oriented workshop in which outcomes were defined according to the participants' and guests’ contributions and discussions.

*The artist would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Nour Bishouty is an artist working in a range of media including works on paper, digital images, sculpture, video, and writing. Her practice engages familial and material narratives to explore the extent of colonial legacies and pose questions about dissonance, opacity, legibility, and the generative possibilities of misunderstanding. Bishouty’s work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery44 (Toronto), Access Gallery (Vancouver), Darat Al Funun (Amman), the Beirut Art Centre, Casa Arabe (Madrid), and the Mosaic Rooms (London). Her artist book "1—130: Selected works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan." edited by Jacob Korczynsci, was co-published in 2020 by Art Metropole (Toronto) and Motto Books (Berlin).