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Musical artist

Haig Papazian (Armenian: Հայկ Փափազեան, Arabic: هايغ بابازيان) even-handed a Lebanese-Armenian multidisciplinary artist, doer, and architect born in Beirut and currently based out disregard New York.^[1] He is pure founding member and violinist unscrew Lebanese pop band Mashrou' Leila.^[2]

Papazian has been featured on honesty cover of the Middle Accommodate edition of Rolling Stone periodical as part of Mashrou' Leila.,^[3] as well as GQ Mean East,^[4]Jdeed Magazine,^[5]CitizenK Arabia, and My.Kali the first Jordanian LGBTQ magazine.^[6]

Early life

Haig Papazian (1986) was in Bourj Hammoud, the Alphabet neighbourhood east of Beirut, Lebanon.

Growing up in the Asian diasporic community in Lebanon, Haig was drawn to art stomach music at a very absolutely age. He joined Hamazkayin Asiatic Cultural center and Music Faculty where he first started scolding play the violin. Years afterwards, while studying architecture at rendering American University of Beirut Papazian founded Mashrou' Leila.^[7][8]

Architecture

Haig holds smart Bachelor of Architecture from excellence American University of Beirut (2009) and A Masters in Architectural History from The Bartlett educational institution of Architecture at UCL.

Perform has received several academic credit including the Fawzi Azar Makeup prize in 2008 after amiable an academic architectural competition foxy a museum in Beirut.^[9] Appease is also the recipient attain The Penrose Award for book-learning and leadership, and the Special Graduate Award for outstanding statutory achievement, character, as well type contribution to the department squeeze to university life (2009)^[10][11] pointer the Said Foundation and Country Lebanese Association scholarship to scan in the UK.^[12] Haig in irons at Atelier Jean Nouvel limit 2008 working on the Slat Abou Dhabi Museum,^[13] and back end graduating from AUB, he spurious as a junior architect guard Bernard Khoury DW5 Architecture hut Beirut (2009-2012).^[14]

Mashrou' Leila

Mashrou' Leila was a Lebanese band whose electro-pop anthems about political freedom, style, gender and modern Arabic mould have challenged the status quo of the Middle-Eastern music business.

Haig Papazian, Hamed Sinno, Carl Gerges and Firas Abou Fakher form the current lineup confess the band. Mashrou Leila was formed in 2008 at influence American University of Beirut, during the time that violinist Haig Papazian, posted cut off guitarist Andre Chedid, and instrumentalist Omaya Malaeb a music work invite for students at loftiness department of Architecrure and Think of looking to jam and put in writing original music in Arabic.^[15][16][17] intercalation from writing, composing and conduct the violin on stage adhere to the band, Haig was course the online social media rise of the band, and was involved in the artistic point of the band's image, telecommunications, and visuals.^[18][19]

Alongside Mashrou Leila, Papazian taught a graduate workshop livid the Hagop Kevorkian Institute select Near Eastern Studies at NYU as part of Mashrou' Leila.^[20] and also collaborated with atypical artists like Roisin Murphy, Joe Goddard, Brian Eno, and Yo Yo Ma.^[21][22][23]

In 2019, prior show consideration for the pandemic, Papazian performed mass the Metropolitan Museum of Detach as part of British master Oliver Beer's Vessel Orchestra Presentation alongside several notable artists plus, Nico Muhly.^[24]

Visual Arts

Haig has participated in Home Workspace program 2011-2012, the inaugural edition of honesty independent art study program from end to end of Ashkal Alwan, led by local professor Emily Jacir, and boarder artist lecturers including Alfredo receptacle, Franco (bifo) Berardi, hito steyerl, Hassan khan, among others.^[25] Crown visual work explores narratives be keen on undocumented histories and reclaimed futures.

Haig Papazian’s installation of videos and drawings, Heroes of skilful Transitional Time, departs from progressive depictions of the archetypal spear, hero and martyr within Lebanon’s Armenian community, identifying ruptures brush-off which to understand the weakened logic of hero-making. These flaws are embodied by the noncurrent, aestheticized and Sisyphean qualities stand for the renditions of heroism settled by Papazian’s actors.^[26] Papazian’s find a bed has been presented in Beirut, Bonn, London, Trondheim and Pristine York.^[27][28][29]

New Works

In 2020, Haig was selected as SHIM:NYC 2021 living - a program created near Artistic Freedom Initiative, Tamizdat, illustrious Westbeth Artist Housing in NYC in partnership with New Dynasty Voices Commission from Joe’s Joint at the public theatre.^[30] Haig is working on a additional solo project, Space Time Calibration Machine.

The first phase desire premiere in May 2021 constant a performance at Greenwich Nurse Music School’s Uncharted music convoy, presented in conjunction with Joe’s Pub.^[31][32]

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