MN Center for the Book Arts
MCBA Main Gallery
minneapolis, minnesota
2022
performing bayt (fragments) and performing bayt (mother tongue) from a series of wearable books.
exhibited as part of Poetry is Not a Luxury, a exhibition of artists’ books curated by Maymanah Farhat.
MN Conservatory for the Arts
gallery
winona, minnesota
2021
(fragmented) echoes of future memories: a glimpse into a hallway
mixed media installation: doorknobs and plates, string, written word on Japanese paper, fabric
exhibited as companion exhibition to Sharon Mansur’s SOLO dance performance, 1001 Arab Futures.
MN Conservatory for the Arts
outdoor campus
winona, minnesota
2021
1001 Arab Futures
collaboration: co-directed segment of Sharon Mansur’s SOLO dance performance: 1001 Arab Futures. Text is example of the forms of Shaker and Mansur’s collaborative process.
segment title: fragmented echoes of future memories
marsden|gustafson gallery
FilmNorth
st. paul, minnesota
2019 – 2020
solo exhibition on bayt: an exhibition of still and moving images and written word, by Andrea Shaker, co-curated with Michelle Baroody.
Radius of Arab Writiers (RAWI)
University of Houston
houston, texas
2018
co-panel organizer (with Michelle Baroody): Performing Images of the Body: Considering Roles and Representations of Arab | Arab American Women. Panel presenters: Noelle Awadallah, Michelle Baroody, Andrea Shaker. Presentation: I discussed the role of the photograph, works of fiction, text and domestic spaces, in creating experimental film on bayt: a film in fragments.
13th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
St. Anthony Main Theater
minneapolis, minnesota
2018
screening: experimental film on bayt: a film in fragments as part of segment with local and regional filmmakers
panelist: post screening discussion with local filmmakers moderated by Lamia Abukhadra.
CAVE, Festival of Cinematic, Audio & Visual Experimentation
Bryant Lake Bowl
minneapolis, minnesota
2018
screened on silence, an experimental film, with spoken word as part of program: An afternoon of Arab American Experimental Cinema. spoken word: Andrea Shaker; recorded music: Salah Fattah (violin) and Steve Yaeger (drums).
co-presented by the Minnesota Museum of American Art and Mizna, the M- off site at Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
gallery 71
edina, minnesota
2017 – 2018
particularities: exhibited photographs as part of four-person exhibition
curated by Mary Bergs
exhibitors: Rachel Breen, Valerie Jenkins, Brett Kallusky and Andrea Shaker
11th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival
St. Anthony Main Theater
minneapolis, minnesota
2016
screened on silence, an experimental film, with spoken word, as part of segment on Syria
spoken word and direction: Andrea Shaker; recorded music: Salah Fattah (violin) and Steve Yaeger (drums).
Altered Esthetics Film Festival
Southern Theater
minneapolis, minnesota
2016
Featured Artist: premiered on silence: performance of spoken word, live music and experiemental film. spoken word: Andrea Shaker; violin: Salah Fattah; Arabic drums: Khaldoun Samman
Walker Art Center
minneapolis, minnesota
2014 & 2015
screening and presentation of experimental film home. not home. as part of Walker Art Center’s 75th Anniversary Celebration.
screening of experimental film home. not home. Walker’s Best Buy Film/Video Bay.
Radius of Arab Writers (RAWI)
Loft Literary Center
minneapolis, minnesota
2014
Reading of book chapter in process: home. not home. (bayt. laysa bayt) alongside moving image.
Archive
other exhibitions & screenings
Kissing a White Wall #’s 1 & 2, silver gelatin prints on textured paper, each print 30 x 40″, 1994.
