Sara Abdul

Sara Abdul is a multidisciplinary artist who loves working with movies, whether it is through criticism, filmmaking or scholarly work. She is currently working on a short film that combines live action and 2D animation to re-animate Taddle Creek, a now buried river that once ran throughout downtown Toronto. You can find her on twitter @zolnicura or on letterboxd @vulnicuraa.

Sara’s Master's thesis was a piece of autofiction that explored a selection of feminist media using space time philosophy (Gaston Bachelard, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, John David Rhodes). Discoveries were made, several personal, some universal. It was a solid exploration of what city spaces mean to women and what women mean to city space. It was a reflection on the haunting link between places, memories and the self. Now she hopes to use these concepts online. The ultimate aim of her doctoral work is to conceptualize an affect theory approach to people’s relationship with virtual spaces relative to their relationship with physical spaces. She is looking to understand the differences in experience between being in an online space (an inbox, an old iMessage conversation, an old Tumblr fan account, Twitter on a random day, dating apps, etc.) and being in a real one (like your room).

Her research interests include space time philosophy, cognitive science philosophy, affect theory, horror theory, autofiction, women's studies and abolitionist theory.

Fluent Languages

• Pashto
• English
• French