Sadia Sadia

A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (August 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Sadia Sadia
Born	Sadia Sadia
Nationality	British/Canadian
Occupation	Installation Artist
Website	Chimera Arts

Sadia Sadia is a Canadian-born British installation artist, known for her audiovisual media work, incorporating sound and images, both still and moving.

Career[]

1978–1993[]

Sadia worked largely with the Canadian guitar player David Wilcox, producing nine albums including Out of the Woods, My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble, Bad Reputation, Breakfast at the Circus, and The Natural Edge, many of which achieved gold or platinum status.^[1][2][3]

1993–present[]

Sadia is a founding member of the multimedia world fusion project Equa with Stephen W. Tayler. Signed to Polygram (Australia) in 1996, producing the eponymously titled ARIA^[4] nominated album 'EQUA' in the same year.

Film and installations[]

Sadia produced, edited, and (working with Stephen W. Tayler as Equa) scored the short film The Noon Gun. Based on footage originally shot in Afghanistan in 1971, and with the support of the British Council, The Noon Gun was shortlisted for the Satyajit Ray Foundation short film competition and has been featured in film festivals worldwide.^[5]

As a filmmaker, Sadia has also produced and edited the short 'The End of the Party: Hyde Park 1969',^[6] a view of the 60's based on previously unseen footage of the famous first performance by Blind Faith in Hyde Park; produced and edited 'Iggy the Eskimo Girl',^[7] a short featuring Syd Barrett's (Pink Floyd) girlfriend Iggy, ubiquitously and affectionately known in the 1960s as 'Iggy the Eskimo girl'; and directed, produced and edited the film 'Lit From Within: The Film and Glass Works of Anthony Stern',^[8] a short documentary by Sadia about the filmmaker and glass artist Anthony Stern, which explores some of Anthony's life and works, and examines the aesthetic and philosophical relationship between glass and film as materials through which light passes. She also worked as director, editor, producer and sound designer on 'San Francisco Redux No. 1',^[9] the first installment of a multi-channel installation work. The latter films had their world premiere as part of the curated programme 'Le Cinema D'Avant-Garde' at Cinémathèque Française^[10] in Paris, France, on June 27, 2008.

Sadia is also the creator of the single channel video installation 'The Memory of Water (Part 1)'^[11][12] which was acquired by Australian Centre for the Moving Image^[13](ACMI) to form part of its permanent collection of exemplary works by Australian and international artists. It featured in the exhibition 'Proof: The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes'.^[14][15]

In January 2014, Sadia completed ‘All Time and Space Fold into the Infinite Present (Cataract Gorge)’^[16] a large-scale three channel filmed installation with an accompanying eight channel soundfield. The work features footage of the rapids captured by the artist in Cataract Gorge, Launceston, Tasmania. The footage has been slowed down and colour balanced to resemble deep space, while the motion remains that of the water. This produces a meditative work that draws together the artist’s ideas about time, space, and the land. The accompanying eight (8) channel soundfield is constructed of audio captured by the artist in the Gorge.^[17]

The work premiered at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG)^[18] Inveresk, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia’s largest regional museum, on January 10, 2014 and ran through March 2, 2014. It has since been acquired by the museum for their permanent collection.

In September 2014, Sadia premiered her 30-channel audio installation ‘Notes To An Unknown Lover’ at Spinnerei^[19] Rundgang in Leipzig, Germany. She also premiered her installation ‘Fugue: Die Wende’^[20] at Halle 14 Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst (Centre for Contemporary Art)^[21] as part of the City of Leipzig’s 'Lichtfest 2014 Kulturparcours’.

In June 2015, ‘Ghosts of Noise’^[22] was screened and discussed as part of the international colloquium ‘Les Devenirs Artistiques de L’Information’ at Sorbonne Paris, co-sponsored by Le Bauhaus-Universität Weimar & Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM), the Birmingham Center for Media and Cultural Research, and ELICO Equipe de recherche de Lyon.^[23]

Books[]

On 26 June 2013 Sadia's first book 'Notes To An Unknown Lover'^[24] was released by Bybrook Press.

References[]

External links[]

• Chimera Arts Official website for Sadia Sadia