Shireen Taweel 5364 nocturne (production still) 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and STATION Australia. Photograph by Spencer Reid
Shireen Taweel
5364 nocturne
5 October 2024 - 2 March 2025
Based in Warrane Sydney, Shireen Taweel is a multi-disciplinary research-led artist whose work considers the histories and futurisms of collective space, materiality, and cultural practice. Her most recent work looks at the influence of the celestial navigation technologies of Arab astronomy on the future movement of people through migration and pilgrimage. As the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s 2024 International Visiting Artist, Taweel has produced a new moving image work, navigational devices, and a set of copper engraved prints as documentation of a performative pilgrimage that started in Ōtepoti Dunedin and moved north-west across the South Island. Guided by the careful tracking of the night sky, 5364 nocturne speaks to how the continuing contributions of the Arab sciences can produce alternative futurisms for space migration.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artist Programme, supported by Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.
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