INHIYAR (BREAKDOWN) Noise from the Underground - Incite at Columbia University

Leading artists in experimental–underground Noise scenes deploying poetic practices to resist and denounce politics of total destruction.

INHIYAR (BREAKDOWN)

Curated by Shirine Saad

Co-presented by ArteEast with support from Columbia University’s Incite Institute.

Visuals by Tracy Chahwan

Note: Capacity is limited—first come first served.

This event brings together leading artists in experimental and underground Noise scenes, deploying poetic practices to resist and denounce politics of total destruction. Trans Punk Poet Cyborg Andrea Abi-Karam, musician and dancer Leyya Mona Tawil, dancer and scholar Nora Alami and DJ and writer Shirine Saad will explore the power of BREAKDOWN after the end of the world.

As we stare at mass death and the plunder and erasure of native ecologies and histories, we dance in the ruins, alchemizing life, love and resistance. Artists from the Arab world and diaspora forge new communities in DIY and underground spaces, inventing languages to defy devastating grief. Reimagining ghazals, muashahat, maqamat, queer erotica, sacred cosmologies, sci-fi utopias and dystopias, intoxicating Sufi and Zar rituals, and the deep legacy of militant art throughout the region, remixing Punk, Techno, Rap, Grime, echoing protests from Gaza to Khartoum, Tehran, and Cairo, amplifying noise and fatal pollution, they articulate radical poethical visions amidst apocalypse and despair.

Performances by

• Andrea Abi-Karam
• Leyya Mona Tawil
• Nora Alami
• Shirine Saad

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