Apophatic Art Practice and Research

Connecting with the ineffable in times of flattening

Contributors Project / Editorial Team
  • Merel Visse
  • William Franke
  • Ryan Woodring
  • Béatrice Machet
  • Sarah Travis
  • Enaiê Azambuja
  • Sarah Tarkany
  • Peter Kline
  • Kythe Heller
  • Cailtin Gilson
  • Chelle Stearns

Véra (V) Haddad

the feeling when

the feeling when is a 7 minute video work depicting dialogue between two friends over the phone. The intonation, timing and cadence of each performer is derived from them typing all of their dialogue as they performed it. Featuring Sahar Khraibani, Youlim Nam, original score by Emily A. Sprague, and cinematography by Adam Baron-Bloch.

Dream Commons

Dream Commons is an ongoing, in-process experimental documentary project exploring and memorializing peoples dream lives. Formed through connecting with strangers, building trust in shared time and collaboration. When the camera is on we make something together – some choose to recreate a scene from a dream; others reflect on the touch points of their dream-worlds and waking lives. These free-form, candid dream shares unfold alongside regional landscapes and fragments of local AM-radio, grounding each story in time and place.

Véra (V) Haddad is a filmmaker and visual artist who centers relationships, shared authorship to tell stories that cultivate interconnectivity. V earned an MFA from UCLA’s New Genres program, a BFA from The Cooper Union, and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Haddad is the director and editor of Slopehouse Productions where they have co-created music centered documentaries and videos for over a decade. They received the 2021 Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for their ongoing collaborative portraiture project “Self Portrait Service” alongside their collaborator Sam Richardson. Haddad is an alumni of The Lighthouse Works, Ucross, Vermont Studio Center and Monson Arts fellowships; and also self-distributes their work in artist run spaces and on the internet in an effort to make their work as accessible as possible and share creative experiences outside of institutions.

the feeling when, 2023, video.
dream commons, 2024–ongoing, video.