OctoHeadWolfNeck

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OctoHeadWolfNeck was seized by a Jiin & merged with an octopus's form & a wolf's head. John Teare used SculptGL to combine the mesh of a lion cub & an octopus in a seamless blend. This project originated at Prototype Camp, FACT Liverpool, October 2017, where young people responded to the Designing Desire exhibition and the installation 'She Who Sees the Unknown', a reading room featuring images & text from middle eastern mythologies surrounding Jiin's. "The jinniya (female jinn) on which Allahyari’s work for Designing Desire centers is Aeisheh Ghediseh (or Aisha), said to create a crack in the male body as a sexual and erotic means of transforming him into another being, forcing him to act as a conduit between worlds. When she possesses a man, she does not completely take over his new host but opens him to a storm of incoming jnun and jinns and sorcerous particles of all kinds; making the man a gateway for new demons, cosmic data, and sweeping energies. This is why she is feared. And she never leaves – she always resides in the man, guaranteeing his total openness, which is not always pleasant." FACT’s Learning Programme experiments with the concept of art-tech centers as expanded classrooms for lifelong learning, spaces for critical dialogues, artistic experiences, and social dreaming.