This special evening presents the work of three female artists who use performance to explore their connections to and distance from the transient landscapes of cultural heritage, family, tradition and everyday life in the Middle East.
Umama Hamido: HIND
In the summer of 2014 Umama Hamido travelled from her city Beirut to the Bekaa Valley, visiting villages on the borders of Lebanon and Syria. She was drawn by the beauty of the people and a way of life much removed from the one she was accustomed to in the capital city. This is a world of local tribes, rebel fighters, and people who have fled from the ongoing civil war in the neighbouring country. HIND documents a landscape and the daily life of a people who inhabit it. In this cinematic performance, Umama takes the audience on a journey through sound and image, sharing film footage which captures both the serenity and beauty of this environment and the inhabitants but also a reality of tension, poverty, fear and imminent danger.
HIND is supported by BANNER, an Artsadmin initiative which presents compelling work by artists who have recently graduated from art school. This production was made possible through Al-Mawred al Thaqafy – Culture Resource’s Production Awards Program.
Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani: Atigheh | عتیقه
Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani presents an experimental DJ set, stitching together the cracks that gape open between culture, family, tradition, diaspora and where they are placed in a city that promotes the elite.
Jumana Hokan: Lamia’s Fruit
This new immersive performance piece uses sound, live action and audience participation to oscillate between history and current affairs focusing on questions relating to cultural dilution and its tense interplay within the human condition.
Cash only tickets will be available on the door.