Khaled Hafez

Shaping Perceptions: The self as an affective and effective work of art

This project, attempts to interact with the citizens of Murcia in a process of knowledge exchange through a project that comprises several pillars, all of which are planned to be and use clear descriptive and educative language. The project aims to take Murcia as a sample of a non-cosmopolitan Mediterranean city, a city in which contemporary practices like public intervention and contemporary interactive methods of knowledge sharing and exchange of various forms and their reception are all to be proved. I plan to perform a contemporary art experiment on it. The project/ artwork aims to take an educational approach to interact with different age groups and social strata in the city of Murcia on the nature, extent and appreciation of contemporary art. In other words the artist (myself) becomes only one single tool and one single element in the experiment (i.e. in the manufacture of the artwork).

Summary of the Project Shaping Perceptions: The self as an affective and effective work of art

1- The Self as a tool for Production:
Single Channel Video

2- The Self as a tool for Exploring Space, Histoty & Time:
Guided tours to Cartagena Prison

3- The Self as a tool for Sounding thoughts & Concepts:
Radio Programs broadcast with self as facilitator

4- The Self as a tool for Collaboration:
Collaborating with another artist’s artwork (documentary testimonial).

5- The Self as a tool for Belonging:
Working with a local politician and a local popular figure in enforcement and advocacy to interview in Radio programs.

6- The Self as a tool for Knowledge-Exchange:
Series of lectures, delivered by two art historians and curators, and two local Murcia academics.