Two men possesed by Jiin's

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These men were possesed by a Jiin. SculptGL was used to distort their meshes. This was made by young people attending the Prototype Holiday Camp at FACT Liverpool, October 2017. The young people were responding to the Designing Desire exhibition and the installation ‘She Who Sees the Unknown’, a reading room featuring images & text from middle eastern mythologies around Jiin's. “The jinniya (female jinn) on which Allahyari’s work for Designing Desire is focused, Aeisheh Ghediseh (or Aisha) is said to create a crack on the male body as a sexual and erotic way to transform him into another being, forcing him to act as a conduit between worlds. When she possesses a man she does not completely take over the new host but opens him to a storm of incoming jnun and jinns and sorcerous particles of all kinds; making the man a gate for new demons, for sweeping cosmic data. This is why she is feared. And she never leaves — she always resides in the man to guarantee his total openness, which is not always pleas­ant.“ FACT’s Learning Programme experiments with the notion of the art-tech centre as an expanded classroom for lifelong learning, a space for critical dialogues, artistic experiences and social dreaming.