A very interesting artist in the sense that he works with different disciplines which shapes his work. Disciplines such as hard sciences, genetics, architecture ...
He counts himself as a research artist, who researches interesting aspects of different disciplines and uses the knowledge or methodologies from these disciplines in his art. In that sense he is site specific, for example one work included a wind tunnel where he made work in. He considers his work being an installation rather than video maker or sculpture artist and that is all down to documentation of the work. Although he showed a lot of videos of his work and its processes, the videos themselves aren't work. It was clear from the lecture that he was very interested in different aspects of different disciplines as mostly he was talking about them. At some point of the lecture I thought I was in a science class where different terminology was used which you can hardly relate to art.
For me it is very interesting how he finds the setting that is completely not arty and creates art in it. Very unusual but I like the effort to combine them together, the science and art, as they do have their differences and similarities too.
The work that I liked the most was the Shamshir+Windtunnel=Progress (2008-09)
A site-specific installation in the MIT-Wright Brothers Windtunnel in which a replica 16th century sword is made to cut through the air Infinitely: http://www.haseebahmed.com/Shamshir-Windtunnel-Progress-2008-09
video: https://vimeo.com/18847712
The work was a performance in the wind tunnel where the sward was cutting through the air, In a way there is a juxtaposition. The wind tunnel points to the future and the sward pint to history to the past.
At some point of the lecture I could not help but think whether for him the process of making art was more important than the outcome at the end.
~Ev
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