A five-week silent series exploring attention through movement, sound, and writing.
Each session begins with guided walking meditation (Zen-based/kinhin): slow, continuous steps that bring awareness to pace, weight, and space.
Participants then enter a spatial sound environment. Sound is distributed throughout the room, not fixed to a single source. Its role is to re-orient sensory intelligence—shifting attention away from abstraction and back into direct perception. Listening becomes spatial and physical/somatic, not interpretive.
Instructions are delivered through projection only—short prompts that guide focus without explanation. There is no speaking, discussion, or feedback.
The session structure remains the same each week. This repetition is intentional. Over time, it refines perception and reduces distraction.
The series draws on the idea of fushō (the unborn mind): a state of awareness before naming or interpretation. While this state cannot be forced, the conditions for it can be supported through constraint, repetition, and attention.
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 during the session, inside the capsul of spatial sound.
Over six 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 are registered more directly, without the need to explain or resolve them.
Participants develop:
stronger, more stable attention
comfort with silence and duration
awareness of perception before language
a simple method for capturing observations without overthinking
This is not a traditional workshop:
no discussion
no critique
no sharing
A structured environment for working with attention through walking, 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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