REAL FUN with EMIRHAKIN and ghenwa noiré

EMIRHAKIN and ghenwa noire collaborate on a new performance piece in which they are dissecting the sounds of fear, loss and resistance. By activating their artworks installed in the space, the artists will sonically engage with the silence surrounding the pieces.

The artists collectively transform into a vocal and movement instrument, grounded in the body and its sounds and gestures shaped by socio-political contexts of the artists. Their performance layers spoken word, singing, synth, and the bouzouki—a traditional instrument with deep cultural ties and a history of storytelling and resistance.

Delving into the discrepancy between man-made disasters and mother nature, this performance will attempt to raise the question: “What is there left to say?”

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— Friday 25 October 19:30–21:00

EMIRHAKIN poses urgent yet open questions about the influence of contemporary politics on our human psyche. Navigating through the ever-changing signs and symbols of our times, the artist is mainly curious about the things that are being put in places that they are not supposed to be, serving as reminders that meaning often emerges through this arbitrariness. His practice encompasses the mediums of performance, text, video, and installation, which are translated into visual (and non-visual) indexes. By challenging the bodily experience of the artist and the audience, his long-durational pieces dismantle the predefined ways of observing and performing, consider the space beyond physicality as a negotiation, and resist the constructed idea of time through the modes of queer temporalities.

ghenwa noiré is a Beirut-Amsterdam based performer and multimedia installation practitioner. They work on employing their body as a vocal and movement instrument, drawing from Lebanon’s social structure. noiré explores oral history, gossip, and nonverbal cues in their performances, accompanied by music to channel social and domestic structures. Investigating semantic satiation, they delve into how daily expressions expand their function by repetition. Through their work they question how one can deal with daily life, mental struggles and routines.

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