The Portraits of An
Imagined Past explores individual ancestry, identity and memory through the
making and performing of a series of “living portraits.”
Participants/artists investigated their personal histories, identified a person
of interest from their past, and then researched this person to embody them in
the present. They use imagination, interpretation and memory as tools to
reconstruct the lives and stories of their family members, and in this process
reveal their own perspective of who they are, set against the backdrops of
their histories.
Concept and Project Leader: Sean Frey
In collaboration with the Community Arts Guild
Lead Artists:
Sonja Rainey (design and lead), Beth Helmers
(performance and lead), Sharada Eswar (story telling and performance). Arber
Makri (painting and building).
Assisting Artists: Thomas Truman John, Andrea Thring, Bill
Livingston, Molly McGregor, Dave McNiven
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Sulogini S. as Sothynathan, her husband
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P. Parameswary as Sinnappusubramainiam,
her father 1951
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Yasmeen Safawi as her mother, Adawia Aziz
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Afroza Parvin as Anwara Begum, her mother, 1968
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Pathma M. as Radnam Thiagarajah, her mother, 1954
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| Karis Jones-Pard as Joan Phillip, her grandmother, 1969 |
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Komathy Sarah as Subramaniam Arumugam, her grandfather, 1942
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