http://www.nehalelhadi.com Nehal El-Hadi Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:56:39 +0000 http://www.nehalelhadi.com en http://nehalelhadi.com/Profile-AQSAzine http://nehalelhadi.com/following/nehalelhadi.com/Profile-AQSAzine Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:56:39 +0000 Nehal El-Hadi 2852496 <img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/2852496/shameless-fall-2010.jpeg" border="0" width="538" height="720" width_o="538" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/2852496/shameless-fall-2010_o.jpeg" align="left" /> Shameless Magazine, issue #15, Fall 2010, pp. 22-25. Click here for PDF http://nehalelhadi.com/Life-Lessons-Learned http://nehalelhadi.com/following/nehalelhadi.com/Life-Lessons-Learned Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:05:57 +0000 Nehal El-Hadi 100041 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/100041/br.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="399" width_o="600" height_o="399" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/100041/br_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/100041/br2.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="399" width_o="600" height_o="399" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/100041/br2_o.jpg" align="left" /> “Life Lessons Learned: Haiku in Remix” is an interactive, text-based installation. 15 lines (from five haikus) are printed separately on magnetic stock. Each haiku distills a particular life experience that became a lesson for me. Viewers can then recreate their own poetry by moving the lines around. Writing poetry is an extremely personal and isolating experience. This piece examines how we relate to other people’s poetry by allowing for different types of interaction with the text, as well as democratising the ownership/audience issues surrounding poems. http://nehalelhadi.com/city-heart http://nehalelhadi.com/following/nehalelhadi.com/city-heart Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:07:35 +0000 Nehal El-Hadi 30915 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30915/cityheartcover.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="331" width_o="1000" height_o="495" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30915/cityheartcover_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30915/CityHeart1.jpg" border="0" width="634" height="468" width_o="634" height_o="468" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30915/CityHeart1_o.jpg" align="left" /> There’s a poem that anthropomorphises the city and then substitutes it for an entity consisting of an amalgamation of previous lovers (I made that up because it sounded good). Then there’s a short story that deals with the normalisation of violence in black immigrant communities (someone else said that, but it sounded better than anything I could have made up). Then there are five filmic vignettes titled by lines from the songs that would make up the soundtrack if, in fact, they were filmed vignettes. Available at Art Metropole. All illustrations by Frank Maidens. http://nehalelhadi.com/Posted-Cards-Online http://nehalelhadi.com/following/nehalelhadi.com/Posted-Cards-Online Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:31:38 +0000 Nehal El-Hadi 30785 This project was originally created for This Is World Town, as part of the Post Your Map Artist Series. The original posting can be found here. Nomadic is the word that best describes my geographical history - stints in Sudan, Oman, and the U.K. I’ve lived in Canada since 1999, the longest time I’ve cumulatively spent in one country. During this time, I’ve received mail at 13 addresses, taken thousands of photographs and written countless words. Posted Cards Online uses photographs I’ve taken and recombines them with fragments from my writings, highlighting key moments that shaped different aspects of my identity. Each image and its accompanying text are brought together with the use of metadata tags. This project also explores the non-linear nature of memory, and the revisionist, romanticist nature of reminiscence. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/1_ElHadi_BecauseForHalf.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/1_ElHadi_BecauseForHalf_o.jpg" align="left" /> because for half an hour, life was beautiful Tags accompanying this post: Toronto, half of a pair, scorpio, Sizzla, romance, ten <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/2_ElHadi_AndIWished.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="600" width_o="400" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/2_ElHadi_AndIWished_o.jpg" align="left" /> and I wished for you with all my heart Tags accompanying this post: Khartoum, ghazal, grandparents, Sufism, homesickness, heredity <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/3_ElHadi_TheyWereAlways.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/3_ElHadi_TheyWereAlways_o.jpg" align="left" /> they were always from somewhere else, like me Tags accompanying this post: Regina, outcast, masculinity, acceptance, parole <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/4_ElHadi_IHideBehind.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/4_ElHadi_IHideBehind_o.jpg" align="left" /> I hide behind the video camera Tags accompanying this post: Regina, ragheads, dollmaker, Afghanistan invasion, rodeo <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/5_ElHadi_AndMomentsStill.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/5_ElHadi_AndMomentsStill_o.jpg" align="left" /> and moments still disappear without permission Tags accompanying this post: Toronto, epidemic, natural, fusion, dilution, Arabic <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/6_ElHadi_MaybeIImagined.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="600" width_o="400" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/6_ElHadi_MaybeIImagined_o.jpg" align="left" /> maybe I imagined it Tags accompanying this post: Montreal, culture clash, fire escape, escape, dismissal <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/7_ElHadi_YoureSittingOn.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/7_ElHadi_YoureSittingOn_o.jpg" align="left" /> you’re sitting on that old couch Tags accompanying this post: Ottawa, Erykah Badu, foreign affairs, alienation, betrayal <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/8_ElHadi_BetchaThatWasnt.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/8_ElHadi_BetchaThatWasnt_o.jpg" align="left" /> betcha that wasn’t the only thing Tags accompanying this post: Havana, debt, mixed race, frustration, infidelity, gossip <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/9_ElHadi_WeWearThe.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/9_ElHadi_WeWearThe_o.jpg" align="left" /> we wear the deaths on our necks Tags accompanying this post: Khartoum, purge, market, obligation, faith, superficiality <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/10_ElHadi_AlthoughIHad.jpg" border="0" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/30785/10_ElHadi_AlthoughIHad_o.jpg" align="left" /> although I had nothing to do with it Tags accompanying this post: Regina, instability, discounts, amnesia, three hours, psych ward http://nehalelhadi.com/Regina-Bus-Depot http://nehalelhadi.com/following/nehalelhadi.com/Regina-Bus-Depot Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:02:26 +0000 Nehal El-Hadi 1236 Regina Bus Depot (2003) <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/1236/Regina_BusDepot_Lanes_web.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="250" width_o="400" height_o="250" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/1236/Regina_BusDepot_Lanes_web_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/1236/Regina_BusDepot_Luggage_web.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="334" width_o="500" height_o="334" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/1236/Regina_BusDepot_Luggage_web_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/1236/Regina_BusDepot_Seatsweb.jpg" border="0" width="252" height="400" width_o="252" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/1236/Regina_BusDepot_Seatsweb_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/1236/Regina_BusDepot_Woman_web.jpg" border="0" width="254" height="400" width_o="254" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/160/1236/Regina_BusDepot_Woman_web_o.jpg" align="left" />