VCA ART 2021

Moonis Shah

PhD

My practice transverses a range of media, primarily installation, moving images, text, drawing, computer programming and machine learning. Through the intersection of art, philosophical speculation and historical enquiry, my work contemplates the emergence of new worlds and heretical flights of time and being to critically address questions of territory, language, belonging, gatherings and borders. By reinterpreting various conceptual materials – such as the archive as a question of being rather than an epistemological object, and ecologies as militant processes rather than objects signifying national substance, my practice-led research questions the boundaries of its media and explores the procedures and thresholds of entry, as well as the dialects of its materiality.

Website

www.moonisshah.com

Enquiries

moonis.shah@gmail.com

Featured in tour

Bodies in Space →
A wondrous thing →
Moonis Ahmad Shah, Accidentally Miraculous Everyday from that Heaven, Photogrammetry, video projection, suspended cube, 2021. Photograph by Aaron Christopher Rees.
Moonis Ahmad Shah, Almost Entirely Sisyphus, Typewriter, Arduino, wires, velvet, servo motors, nylon wires, 2021. Photograph by Aaron Christopher Rees.
Moonis Ahmad Shah, The birds are coming archive, Digital painting, print on fabric, web archive, lightbox, QR code, 2018-2021.
Moonis Ahmad Shah, GUL-E-CURFEW: AN INDEX OF THE STRANGE AND INCONSISTENT PHANTOMS FROM EVERYWHERE, Artist book, inject print on archival paper, text written in collaboration with Hafsa Sayeed, 2021.
Moonis Ahmad Shah, GUL-E-CURFEW image 2, Artist book, inject print on archival paper, text written in collaboration with Hafsa Sayeed, 2021.

PhD

Danica Karaičić
David Simpkin
Jacqueline Felstead
Moonis Shah
Youjia Lu

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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