Pronouns: They/Them
“Hello, my name is Prince Aydin aka Ameer. I’m an interdisciplinary artist, primary school teacher, artist educator and trade unionist who currently lives and works between Sydney (Gadigal) and Port Kembla (Dharawal). My art practice seeks to move beyond the passivity of a gallery space, going outside this stasis to see, listen, think, and feel-to experience-reconnecting with community, building worlds and my relationship with the earth.
Our relationships to our own creative process can shift and change, depending on the context we see ourselves in, what our interests and needs are at any given time. I am honing into the fact that anything can be part of practice, with intention, because art and life are not separate entities- but interconnected. Process in art is also processing my life; making art is a way of accessing joy, healing and making sense of the world.
Walking and its methodologies are a significant part of my practice. I examine (and trace) the received wisdom concerning a broad thematic range of subjects including movement, dance, meditation, stillness and somatics, lived experiences, complex representations of disability and madness in public space, ideologies and practices that govern and limit bodies in movement, and socially engaged practices. I seek to think critically about place and movement, being accountable to Indigenous knowledges, critical race and critical disability; within the realms of feminist, trans and queer studies.
Community is so valuable! I’ve recently considered that gathering people together is in-fact, an art form. Connecting, conversing, building spaces (or experiences) that allow for interconnectivity to take place. This is a large part of my work. Ultimately, that’s what I feel a classroom to be…okay, a little more forced, but community-building, nonetheless. Learning how to live with each other, humbly – listening with curiosity and in collaboration”.