CARINA TABBAH PORTFOLIO & SAMPLE WORK A P P L I C A T I O N

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TABLE OF CONTENT

1.  COUNTER ACTIVE 2. SHAGHAF 3. PERSONAL PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE? 4. PORTFOLIO ADDITIONS

COUNTER ACTIVE  ‘Counteractive’ is a piece, focusing on an active form of communication within a group's attention to how they function within my performance. Representing a composition, or form of expression that acts in opposition to social norms by spontaneously expressing what so happens to represent my method and choice to visually communicate my personal foundation to an ar tistic physical experience, where both the audience and I become ar t.

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LE TRIO _COUNTER ACTIVE 2014,    Acrylic  on  canvas.  Pain4ngs  from  Exhibi4on,  at  the  Zara  Gallery    Amman  Jordan

LA TOUFFE_COUNTERACTIVE 2014,    Mixed  Media  on  Canvas.  Pain4ngs  from  Exhibi4on,  at  the  Zara  Gallery    Amman  Jordan

IMPRIMER_COUNTERACTIVE  2014,    Acrylic  on  canvas.  Pain4ngs  from  Exhibi4on,  at  the  Zara  Gallery    Amman  Jordan.    

SHAGHAF  The term شغـــف (shaghaf) can best be thought of as “passion”, but it can also mean sensual desire (i.e. lust). Sometimes this term is used to refer to infatuation or the state of being madly in love. E.g. the adjectives شغـوف (shaghoof) or مشـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــغـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــوف (mashghoof) translate as “to be madly in love”.

Love is an important concept for Arabs, so it should come as no surprise that there are many different ways to express love in Arabic, all with slightly different meanings. The strong culture of poetry and song revolves greatly around love. Many believe this developed because of society, culture or religion. Poetry and songs provided an outlet for the passion of lovers and as a result enriched the Arabic language with many nuanced words related to love.

  This piece provides a creative outlet for the combination of poetry, song, and art. Where the performance is the process and transition of expression used to create a balance between the working with that limits of the body, and interacting with the sociology of performance. I'm looking into the possibilities of the mind in the interior walls of a p e r f o r m a n c e t o c r e a t e a b o n d b e t w e e n t h e a u d i e n c e a n d m y s e l f .

Carina .T.

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SHAGHAF_ PERSONAL PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE ?  2013,    Acrylic  on  canvas.  Pain4ng  from  Performance  at  the  Waverley  Building  NTU  NoKngham,  UK    

SHAGHAF_ PERSONAL PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE ?  2013,    Excerpts  from  Final  Performance  of  Personal  Performance  Language?.  Photography  by  Michael  Luyangi  NTU    

PERSONAL PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE  

AL ARD _ PERSONAL PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE ?  2013,    Excerpts  from  Experiment  No.1  of  Personal  Performance  Language.  Photography    by  Chris4ana  Ioannou  Taliadorou,  NTU.      

LINE_ PERSONAL PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE ?  2012,    Excerpts  from  Experiment  No.3  of  Personal  Performance  Language.  NTU  NoKngham,  UK        

TREE INSTALLATION _ PERSONAL PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE ?  2012,    Excerpts  from  Experiment  No.2  of  Personal  Performance  Language.  Photography    by  Chris4ana  Ioannou  Taliadorou,  NTU.      

PORTFOLIO ADDITIONS  

LOVE LIKE SALT _PUPPETRY DESIGN 2013,    Scenic  Design  from  year  three  project    for  Theatre  Set  design.  NTU  NoKngham,  UK        

LOVE LIKE SALT _PUPPETRY DESIGN 2013,    Scenic  Design  from  year  three  project    for  Theatre  Set  design.  NTU  NoKngham,  UK        

BUNRAKU_PUPPETRY DESIGN 2013,    Puppet  Design  from  year  three  project    for  ‘Love  Suicide  at  Senozaki’  Theatre  Set  design.  NTU  NoKngham,  UK        

THE TEMPEST _ SCENE SPECIFIC* 2011,    Props  Design  from  The  Tempest  Installa4on  for  Theatre  Set  design.  NTU  NoKngham,  UK        

   2009,    Mixed  Media  on    Wood,  Pain4ng  from  Final  I.B  Course  work  &  Exhibi4on    Amman,  Jo    

2009,    Mixed  Media  on    Wood,  Pain4ng  from  Final  I.B  Course  work  &  Exhibi4on    Amman,  Jo    

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