Sasa Ghanem-Chaney (French-Algerian, 1993) is an artist, performer, director and facilitator based in Amsterdam since 2017. They work with worldbuilding, interactive installations, collective processes, sound, performance and herbalism. Their practice makes use of lores as frameworks to explore and archive non-hegemonic narratives and of spatial installations as supports for collectivization. Their research process has been anchored in various community projects (Queer Choir Amsterdam, Amsterdam Gay Men Chorus, Rise Baby Rise, re:master opera, House of Hopelezz) allowing them to center collaboration in the works they develop. The practice it generates questions the politics of History-making. What are the invisible frameworks at play in the decision of archiving? Which lores subsist to shape our contemporary perspectives? How can we slow down and listen to the echoes of voices past? Through speculative storytelling, performance, immersive spaces and collective practices, Sasa Ghanem-Chaney questions the making of stories and our political role in the remembrance of minoritized voices.
