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A five-week silent series exploring attention through movement, spatial sound, and haiku.

Each session begins with kinhin (walking meditation): slow, continuous steps that bring awareness to pace, weight, and space. The body sets the rhythm. Attention follows.

Participants then enter a spatial sound environment. Sound is distributed throughout the room, without a fixed source. Its role is to abstract sensory intelligence—loosening habitual modes of perception and allowing attention to register more directly. Listening becomes spatial and somatic, rather than interpretive.

Instructions are delivered through projection only—brief prompts that guide attention without explanation. There is no speaking, discussion, or feedback.

The structure remains consistent each week. This repetition is intentional and ritualistic. Over time, perception becomes more precise as distraction and interference drop.

The series draws on fushō (the unborn mind): awareness prior to naming or interpretation. It is not a state to be produced, but one that becomes perceptible when habitual patterns of recognition are reduced.

Haiku is used as a framework. Rather than a form to master, it functions as a way of registering perception as it occurs—brief, direct, without excess.

Writing takes place within the spatial sound field.

Over five weeks, participants build a collection of short written observations. The focus is not on producing finished work, but on refining how attention meets what is present. Haiku emphasizes felt meaning in immediacy—capturing perception as it arises, before it is explained.

This process can lead to a quiet sense of depth or clarity, where moments register more directly, without the need to resolve or interpret them.

Participants develop:

• a deepened sense of profundity in the present moment
• refined attention
• increased sensitivity to perception
• a more direct, unmediated approach to creativity

This is not a traditional workshop:

• no discussion
• no critique
• no sharing

A structured environment for working with attention through movement, listening, and writing.

Mondays 7:00pm-8:30pm beginning on May 4th, finishing on June 1st.

ZAMEEN-A is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist and violinist working across sound, film, and spatial environments. Her work explores perception, attention, and the inner landscape through image, sound, and narrative, often engaging identity and desire as shifting, abstracted states rather than fixed forms. Alongside Western classical training, she works with Persian violin, using its modal structures and quarter tones to access subtle, often unarticulated emotional states. Her ongoing Unborn Mind series develops as a distinct body of durational, structured works that reconfigure perception toward fushō (unborn mind), engaging states of awareness prior to conception and narrative, where identity and the self are no longer fixed points.

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