MEMBERS
The Tasht Collective is an interdisciplinary group, with each member bringing core strengths from various disciplines including visual and media arts, film studies, journalism, oral history, and education. Below is a brief description of each member’s work.
Hourig Attarian has obtained her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Education, McGill University. She is Assistant Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University of Armenia and a core member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) at Concordia University, Canada. Visual arts-based methodologies are a core facet of her research endeavors. Anchored in the blurred genre of life history and autobiographical inquiry, her work focuses on storying memory and identity through visual and narrative explorations. Her research-creation projects draw together difficult memories and marginalized histories of violence within a framework of public pedagogy.
Shahrzad Arshadi, a Montréal-based award-winning multidisciplinary artist, performer, and human rights activist, came to Canada as a political refugee on December 24, 1983. In her artistic career, Shahrzad has ventured into different fields of photography, documentary film, creative writing, sound creation, and performance, enabling her focus on issues of memory, culture and human rights. Shahrzad is a core member of the Centre for Oral History & Digital Storytelling (COHDS) at Concordia University.
Khadija Baker is a Montreal-based, multidisciplinary artist of Kurdish-Syrian descent. She is also a core member of the Centre for Oral History & Digital Storytelling (COHDS) at Concordia University. Her installations investigate social and political themes centered on the uncertainty of home as it relates to persecution, identity, displacement, and memory. As a witness to traumatic events, unsettled feelings of home are a part of her experience. Her multi-disciplinary installations (textile, sculpture, audio/video) involve participative storytelling and performance to create active spaces of empathy and greater understanding.
Kumru Bilici is an Ottawa-based Canadian/Turkish freelance journalist, social event planner, and researcher. She has a B.A in journalism from Istanbul University and B.A and M.A. in Film Studies from Carleton University, Ottawa. Her research focuses on post-exilic Armenian “homecoming” documentary films and the traumatic post-memory of the 1915 genocide. She is also co-founder and board member of an Ottawa and Montreal based dialogue group Voices in Dialogue, a non-profit and non-partisan organization which promotes open and peaceful dialogue among different peoples with roots in Anatolia, notably those with Turkish, Armenian, and Kurdish backgrounds. She currently works as a cultural interpreter to help newcomers to Canada.
Kumru Bilici is an Ottawa-based Canadian/Turkish freelance journalist, social event planner, and researcher. She has a B.A in journalism from Istanbul University and B.A and M.A. in Film Studies from Carleton University, Ottawa. Her research focuses on post-exilic Armenian “homecoming” documentary films and the traumatic post-memory of the 1915 genocide. She is also co-founder and board member of an Ottawa and Montreal based dialogue group Voices in Dialogue, a non-profit and non-partisan organization which promotes open and peaceful dialogue among different peoples with roots in Anatolia, notably those with Turkish, Armenian, and Kurdish backgrounds. She currently works as a cultural interpreter to help newcomers to Canada.
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