What happens while an artwork is still taking shape?

Process +/- Practice invites you into artists’ ongoing research through making, poetry, and performance. Explore how memories change as objects are reconstructed in clay, how movement through a landscape finds expression in poetry, and how a shared action can keep a performance going. Discover the questions behind each practice and encounter ideas as they develop.

Alina El-Assadi: The Unreliable Reconstruction

How much of an object can you remember once it disappears from view? Join Alina for an experimental workshop using air-dry clay to explore the gaps, shifts, and inventions of memory. Reconstruct an everyday object from memory, then pass your version on for someone else to reinterpret. As each reconstruction becomes the starting point for another, details will disappear, grow, or change entirely. The session ends with a shared display and conversation about what survives and what we add when we try to remember.

Reem Hamed: Movement and Stillness

How do we connect with a landscape beyond its physical presence? Join Reem for a circular poetry reading exploring the relationship between place, movement, and language. Drawing on her ongoing research into translating movement through landscape into poetry and traces on canvas, the gathering opens a space to consider how a place can be experienced and expressed beyond being there.

Yoonsik Chico Park: I Am Not Really A Fan

What does it take to keep an action going? In a 24-hour performance in Studio 5, Yoonsik Chico Park sets a simple rule: the performer must continue circling around the studio, remaining awake, active, and fasting. Emerging from a sustained study of an electric fan, this site-specific work explores artistic labor, cycles, and interdependence.

About the Artists

Alina El-Assadi (b. 1999, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian-Palestinian artist based between Abu Dhabi and Sharjah working across photography, installation, sculpture, and moving image. Her work explores identity, belonging, and narrative through the interplay between fiction and lived histories.

Reem Hamed (b. 1996, Dubai) is a poet and visual artist working across sound, photography, text, clay, and performance. Her interdisciplinary practice explores movement, stillness, and emotional transition.

Yoonsik Chico Park (b. 1998, Seoul) works across performance, installation, sculpture, and image. His practice explores personal agency and existential tension through staged encounters with found objects, ritual, gesture, and silence.