Body Poetics: A Night of Sound and Performance

"Birth of a Thousand Moons" is a presentation of powerful works on polaroid and 35mm by Muyassar Kurdi. These works aim to provoke conversation around the sensual power, glory and innate femininity of the female body. The collection of works are in direct opposition of appeasing the male gaze but in turn provides self liberation, strength and sensuality for women.

"Body Poetics" is a sound performance that will create a full sensory accompaniment to this powerful exhibition. To close out this wonderfully curated show we invite you to share space, energy and time with Muyassar Kurdi and Art Jones as they provide a soundtrack to these magnificent works.

Muyassar Kurdi ​(b. 1989 in Chicago) is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound art, extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, analog photography and film. She has toured extensively in the U.S. and throughout Europe. She currently focuses her attention to interweaving homemade electronic instruments into her vocal and dance performances, stirring a plethora of emotions from her audience members through vicious noise, ritualistic chants, and meditative movements.

Art Jones: Art Jones works with film/video, sound, live performance, and objects. His films, videos, live audio/video mixes, and installations often concern the inter-relationships between popular culture, history and power. His work often makes extensive use of popular music and mainstream media culture as raw material to be sampled and re-combined in order to examine implicit meanings or suggest new ones. Jones is best known for for his innovation in the art of audio/visual mixing, which has been performed solo and in collaboration with musicians and artists including Soundlab, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Phillip Virus with Alec Empire, Amiri Baraka, Femmes with Fatal Breaks, and Anti-Pop Consortium. Jones' projects have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, London's Tate Gallery, Mana Contemporary Art, Roulette Intermedium, and festivals and broadcast outlets internationally. He lives and works in New York City.

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