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'''Parastoo Anoushahpour''' is an Iranian-Canadian moving image artist based in Toronto. She works primarily with video, film and installation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cooley |first=Alison |title=Other Life-formings |publisher=[[Blackwood Gallery]] |year=2020 |location=Mississauga, Ontario |pages=32 |language=en}}</ref> Anoushahpour’s artistic practice is “research driven, workshop oriented, and collaborative at its core, often involving individuals who organize around specific projects to pool resources, exchange insights, gather knowledge, and investigate collectively”.<ref name=":0" /> Anoushahpour has worked as part of an artist collective since 2013 with Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Parastoo Anoushahpour |url=http://mediacityfilmfestival.com/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Media City Film Festival |language=en-US}}</ref> Their collective practice “explores the interplay of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures”, with a focus on challenging “the production of images through speculative narration and dialectical imagery” '''[Add citation manual - Asia News Monitor]'''.
'''Parastoo Anoushahpour''' is an Iranian-Canadian moving image artist based in Toronto. She works primarily with video, film and installation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cooley |first=Alison |title=Other Life-formings |publisher=[[Blackwood Gallery]] |year=2020 |location=Mississauga, Ontario |pages=32 |language=en}}</ref> Anoushahpour’s artistic practice is “research driven, workshop oriented, and collaborative at its core, often involving individuals who organize around specific projects to pool resources, exchange insights, gather knowledge, and investigate collectively”.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ontiveros |first=Mario |date=Fall 2022 |title="Parastoo Anoushahpour". |journal=[[The Massachusetts Review]] |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=466 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref> Anoushahpour has worked as part of an artist collective since 2013 with Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Parastoo Anoushahpour |url=http://mediacityfilmfestival.com/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Media City Film Festival |language=en-US}}</ref> Their collective practice “explores the interplay of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures”, with a focus on challenging “the production of images through speculative narration and dialectical imagery” '''[Add citation manual - Asia News Monitor]'''.


Anoushahpour’s artist residencies include the Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation in Jordan, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture in Spain, Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, ZK/U Center for Art and Urban­istics in Germany and the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Canada.<ref name=":0" />
Anoushahpour’s artist residencies include the Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation in Jordan, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture in Spain, Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, ZK/U Center for Art and Urban­istics in Germany and the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Canada.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ontiveros |first=Mario |date=Fall 2022 |title="Parastoo Anoushahpour". |journal=[[The Massachusetts Review]] |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=466 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref>


== Select works ==
== Select works ==
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A select list of awards and grants that Parastoo Anoushahpour has been the recipient of:
A select list of awards and grants that Parastoo Anoushahpour has been the recipient of:


* Ontario Arts Council (2019).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ontiveros |first=Mario |date=Fall 2022 |title="Parastoo Anoushahpour". |journal=[[The Massachusetts Review]] |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=466 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref>
* Ontario Arts Council (2019).<ref name=":0" />
* Honorary Mention, Chooka, Media City Film Festival (2018).<ref name=":0" />
* Honorary Mention, Chooka, Media City Film Festival (2018).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ontiveros |first=Mario |date=Fall 2022 |title="Parastoo Anoushahpour". |journal=[[The Massachusetts Review]] |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=466 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref>
* Chalmers Arts Fellowship (2018).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Chalmers Arts Fellowships |url=https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/general-granting-information/grant-results/2018/june/chalmers-arts-fellowships |access-date=Feb 13, 2023 |website=Ontario Arts Council}}</ref>
* Chalmers Arts Fellowship (2018).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ontiveros |first=Mario |date=Fall 2022 |title="Parastoo Anoushahpour". |journal=[[The Massachusetts Review]] |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=466 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Chalmers Arts Fellowships |url=https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/general-granting-information/grant-results/2018/june/chalmers-arts-fellowships |access-date=Feb 13, 2023 |website=Ontario Arts Council}}</ref>
* Emerging Media Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council (2018).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Grant Recipients 2004-2022 - Toronto Arts Council |url=https://torontoartscouncil.org/impact/grant-recipients-2004-2022 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Toronto Arts Council}}</ref>
* Emerging Media Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council (2018).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ontiveros |first=Mario |date=Fall 2022 |title="Parastoo Anoushahpour". |journal=[[The Massachusetts Review]] |volume=63 |issue=3 |pages=466 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Grant Recipients 2004-2022 - Toronto Arts Council |url=https://torontoartscouncil.org/impact/grant-recipients-2004-2022 |access-date=2023-02-13 |website=Toronto Arts Council}}</ref>

Revision as of 18:49, 13 February 2023

Parastoo Anoushahpour
Born1986
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian/Canadian
EducationBA in Design for Performance from University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London, UK, a diploma from Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK, a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design from the Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada.
Known forArtist
Websitehttps://www.parastooanoushahpour.com/

Parastoo Anoushahpour is an Iranian-Canadian moving image artist based in Toronto. She works primarily with video, film and installation.[1] Anoushahpour’s artistic practice is “research driven, workshop oriented, and collaborative at its core, often involving individuals who organize around specific projects to pool resources, exchange insights, gather knowledge, and investigate collectively”.[2] Anoushahpour has worked as part of an artist collective since 2013 with Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko.[3] Their collective practice “explores the interplay of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures”, with a focus on challenging “the production of images through speculative narration and dialectical imagery” [Add citation manual - Asia News Monitor].

Anoushahpour’s artist residencies include the Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation in Jordan, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture in Spain, Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, ZK/U Center for Art and Urban­istics in Germany and the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Canada.[4]

Select works

The Time That Separate Us (2022)

The Time that Separates Us depicts the story of Lot’s Wife through the contemporary Jordan River Valley.[5] Drawing on the tale of Sodom and Gomorrah, Anoushahpour examines “sexuality, deviance, and queerness in dominant narratives of punishment and superstition while retelling stories of movement, exile, and belonging”.[6] Anoushahpour's film considers how identity and narrative authority shape the modern border conflicts along the Jordan River Valley. [Add citation - automatic; https://povmagazine.com/an-interview-with-parastoo-anoushahpour-on-sexuality-identity-and-language/]

Charity (2021)

Created by the artist collective of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko, Charity is an interactive documentary that examines a controversy surrounding public art in Markham, Ontario. The film raises questions about the bureaucratic processes involved in this controversy, the “identity of place” and the “representation of subjective experiences and histories simultaneously”. Charity uses 360° video and photogrammetry to re-tell the community’s “confrontation with a piece of public art” [Add citation - repeat; Asia News Monitor]

The Lighthouse (2014)

In Anoushahpour’s piece The Lighthouse, two photographs are reproduced as slides and converted into a three-dimensional installation, using a rotating screen and two slide projectors. Depicting a path to a 12th century lighthouse in Dover, UK, the images “mark a history and memory caught within the repetition of the image in the slide carousel and the rotation of the fan”. Both the content and production are described as “liminal”, as the The Lighthouse functions “somewhere between analogue photography and cinema”, showcasing an “ephemeral horizon instead of the promise of arrival and solid land” [Edit citation - pp 12].[7]

Select Awards

A select list of awards and grants that Parastoo Anoushahpour has been the recipient of:

  • Ontario Arts Council (2019).[8]
  • Honorary Mention, Chooka, Media City Film Festival (2018).[9]
  • Chalmers Arts Fellowship (2018).[10][11]
  • Emerging Media Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council (2018).[12][13]
  1. ^ Cooley, Alison (2020). Other Life-formings. Mississauga, Ontario: Blackwood Gallery. p. 32.
  2. ^ Ontiveros, Mario (Fall 2022). ""Parastoo Anoushahpour"". The Massachusetts Review. 63 (3): 466 – via Project MUSE.
  3. ^ "Parastoo Anoushahpour". Media City Film Festival. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  4. ^ Ontiveros, Mario (Fall 2022). ""Parastoo Anoushahpour"". The Massachusetts Review. 63 (3): 466 – via Project MUSE.
  5. ^ "Parastoo Anoushahpour Screening and Missed Connections Website Launch". Akimbo. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  6. ^ Ontiveros, Mario (Fall 2022). ""Parastoo Anoushahpour"". The Massachusetts Review. 63 (3): 476 – via Project MUSE.
  7. ^ Cooley, Alison (2020). Other Life-formings. Mississauga, Ontario: Blackwood Gallery. p. 13.
  8. ^ Ontiveros, Mario (Fall 2022). ""Parastoo Anoushahpour"". The Massachusetts Review. 63 (3): 466 – via Project MUSE.
  9. ^ Ontiveros, Mario (Fall 2022). ""Parastoo Anoushahpour"". The Massachusetts Review. 63 (3): 466 – via Project MUSE.
  10. ^ Ontiveros, Mario (Fall 2022). ""Parastoo Anoushahpour"". The Massachusetts Review. 63 (3): 466 – via Project MUSE.
  11. ^ "Chalmers Arts Fellowships". Ontario Arts Council. 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  12. ^ Ontiveros, Mario (Fall 2022). ""Parastoo Anoushahpour"". The Massachusetts Review. 63 (3): 466 – via Project MUSE.
  13. ^ "Grant Recipients 2004-2022 - Toronto Arts Council". Toronto Arts Council. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
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