Two men possesed by Jiin's

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These young men were driven by a fierce spirit known as a Jiin. Using SculptGL, they twisted their digital forms into grotesque shapes. The project was created by talented teenagers participating in the Prototype Holiday Camp at FACT Liverpool in October 2017. The campers responded to the Designing Desire exhibition and the installation 'She Who Sees the Unknown', a reading room filled with images and text from Middle Eastern mythologies surrounding Jiin's. "The jinniya, or female jinn, that Allahyari's work for Designing Desire focuses on, Aeisheh Ghediseh (or Aisha), is said to create a crack in the male body as a way to transform him into another being, forcing him to act as a conduit between worlds. When she possesses a man, she doesn't completely take over his new host but opens him up to a storm of incoming jnun and jinns and sorcerous particles of all kinds; making the man a gateway for new demons, cosmic data flooding in. This is why she is feared, and she never leaves – she always resides within the man to guarantee his total openness, which isn't always pleasant." FACT's Learning Programme experiments with the concept of the art-tech centre as an expanded classroom for lifelong learning, a space for critical dialogues, artistic experiences, and social dreaming.