Artist Talk & Demo: Sabina Haque & Isami Ching

FREE & Open to the public with a reserved ticket. This event takes place in The Lab.

Join Sabina Haque for an artist talk exploring (UN) Belonging, her immersive installation that delves into emotional, political, and physical boundaries. Through projected maps, life-size ink drawings, and live performances, Haque invites viewers to experience the spaces between inclusion and exclusion. Drawing from personal history and global borderlands like Kashmir and the Sonoran Desert, Haque challenges the concept of belonging, offering an interactive exploration of borders, known and unknown. The talk will be moderated by Subashini Ganesan-Forbes, performer in the video installation (Un) Belonging.

Isami Ching (he/him) will discuss a brief history of papermaking and its inspiration for his sculptural paper works. Ching will demonstrate samples of his work along with the vacuum-based paper casting method that he utilizes for his work in Infinite Possibilities.

Learn more about Infinite Possibilities.

Sabina Haque Bio:

Sabina Haque (she/her) creates multimedia art installations to explore transformations of place and identity. Raised in Karachi, Pakistan by American and Pakistani parents, Haque has spent half her life in America. Collaboration with BIPOC youth and immigrant communities of color is a vital part of Haque’s practice. She has partnered with Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon, Africa House, and schools in East-Portland to facilitate civic engagement through art. This work was curated into the 2019-Portland-Biannual.

Sabina Haque received an M.F.A in Painting from Boston University and teaches Art at Portland State University, Oregon. She has received noted fellowships like the Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. Haque has participated in residencies including Artist in Residence at the Portland Archives and Records Center and the TEDx Artist in Residence program and the Jordon Schnitzer Printmaking Residency. Noted public collections include the Gordon Gilkey Print Center at the Portland Art Museum, the Jordan Schnitzer Collection and City of Portland’s and Seattle’s Public Portable Art Collections.

Isami Ching Bio:

With a practice that spans the left and the right, the hardcore center and the gummy soft edge, self-described as a, ‘banal paradigm, a gentle lowing in the twilight of twilight, a techno-shaman gibbering in a hall of mirrors, in short a man of our time, for our time, timeless, less, mmmh’, Isami Ching (he/him) exploits the intersection of the arbitrary, the formal, the engineered and the mystic.

Isami Ching has shown at a diverse range of spaces from High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, CA, Real Art Ways in Hartford CT, LA><ART in Los Angeles CA, and regionally in the Pacific Northwest. He has been a member of Ditch Projects in Springfield OR, since 2011.

He received an MFA in sculpture from Columbia University in 2002, and a BFA in Fine Arts 3-D from Massachusetts College of Art in 1998. He has taught at Columbia University and Parsons the New School for Design. Currently he is Senior Instructor at the University of Oregon and teaches in CORE, Art & Technology, and Printmaking.