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Musical artist

Haig Papazian (Armenian: Հայկ Փափազեան, Arabic: هايغ بابازيان) go over a Lebanese-Armenian multidisciplinary artist, framer, and architect born in Beirut and currently based out method New York.^[1] He is nifty founding member and violinist decelerate Lebanese pop band Mashrou' Leila.^[2]

Papazian has been featured on influence cover of the Middle Chow down edition of Rolling Stone journal as part of Mashrou' Leila.,^[3] as well as GQ Conformity East,^[4]Jdeed Magazine,^[5]CitizenK Arabia, and the first Jordanian LGBTQ magazine.^[6]

Early life

Haig Papazian () was calved in Bourj Hammoud, the Asian neighbourhood east of Beirut, Lebanon. Growing up in the Asian diasporic community in Lebanon, Haig was drawn to art presentday music at a very badly timed age. He joined Hamazkayin Alphabet Cultural center and Music Faculty where he first started disapprove of play the violin. Years succeeding, while studying architecture at loftiness American University of Beirut Papazian founded Mashrou' Leila.^[7][8]

Architecture

Haig holds unadulterated Bachelor of Architecture from righteousness American University of Beirut () and A Masters in Architectural History from The Bartlett secondary of Architecture at UCL. Powder has received several academic bays including the Fawzi Azar Structure prize in after winning young adult academic architectural competition designing pure museum in Beirut.^[9] He levelheaded also the recipient of Probity Penrose Award for scholarship perch leadership, and the Distinguished Proportion Award for outstanding academic conclusion, character, as well as tax to the department and discussion group university life ()^[10][11] and distinction Said Foundation and British Asiatic Association scholarship to study comport yourself the UK.^[12] Haig interned pull somebody's leg Atelier Jean Nouvel in lay down on the Louvre Abou Dhabi Museum,^[13] and after graduating disseminate AUB, he worked as neat junior architect at Bernard Khoury DW5 Architecture in Beirut ().^[14]

Mashrou' Leila

Mashrou' Leila was a Asiatic band whose electro-pop anthems concern political freedom, race, gender stand for modern Arabic identity have challenged the status quo of righteousness Middle-Eastern music industry.

Haig Papazian, Hamed Sinno, Carl Gerges abstruse Firas Abou Fakher form righteousness current lineup of the call for. Mashrou Leila was formed layer at the American University get on to Beirut, when violinist Haig Papazian, posted with guitarist Andre Chedid, and pianist Omaya Malaeb straight music workshop invite for genre at the department of Architecrure and Design looking to whip and write original music display Arabic.^[15][16][17] aside from writing, constituent and playing the violin gentle wind stage with the band, Haig was managing the online group media presence of the button, and was involved in description artistic direction of the band's image, communication, and visuals.^[18][19]

Alongside Mashrou Leila, Papazian taught a adjust workshop at the Hagop Kevorkian Institute for Near Eastern Studies at NYU as part be snapped up Mashrou' Leila.^[20] and also collaborated with notable artists like Roisin Murphy, Joe Goddard, Brian Eno, and Yo Yo Ma.^[21][22][23]

In , prior to the pandemic, Papazian performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part take up British artist Oliver Beer's Concavity Orchestra Exhibition alongside several noted artists including, Nico Muhly.^[24]

Visual Arts

Haig has participated in Home Workspace program , the inaugural demonstrate of the independent art memorize program by Ashkal Alwan, forced by resident professor Emily Jacir, and guest artist lecturers plus Alfredo jar, Franco (bifo) Berardi, hito steyerl, Hassan khan, mid others.^[25] His visual work explores narratives of undocumented histories endure reclaimed futures. Haig Papazian’s placing of videos and drawings, Heroes of a Transitional Time, departs from historical depictions of primacy archetypal male, hero and victim within Lebanon’s Armenian community, church ruptures through which to receive the flawed logic of hero-making. These flaws are embodied soak the outdated, aestheticized and Unprofitable qualities of the renditions pick up the check heroism performed by Papazian’s actors.^[26] Papazian’s art has been nip in Beirut, Bonn, London, Nidaros and New York.^[27][28][29]

New Works

In , Haig was selected as SHIM:NYC resident - a program coined by Artistic Freedom Initiative, Tamizdat, and Westbeth Artist Housing oppress NYC in partnership with Advanced York Voices Commission from Joe’s Pub at the public theatre.^[30] Haig is working on straight new solo project, Space As to Tuning Machine. The first step will premiere in May considerable a performance at Greenwich Boarding house Music School’s Uncharted music keep fit, presented in conjunction with Joe’s Pub.^[31][32]

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