HomeClasses and EventsEventsStudies Project: Moving Through Noise – Decolonial Feminist and Queer Arab Poetics
Shirine Saad is wearing a red outfit and holding a record and headphones. Photo by Eva Sakellarides.
ID: Shirine Saad is wearing a red outfit and holding a record and headphones. Photo by Eva Sakellarides.

How do we move through catastrophe? This Studies Project, organized by Shirine Saad, is an invitation to reflect on contemporary movement practices from feminist and queer artists from the Arab* world, as a collective poetic of resistance, decolonization and unworlding. We will draw connections between dancers, performance artists, and other artists (for example, Mona Hatoum, Sahar Damoni, nasa4nasa, Samaa Wakim, and Tania El Khoury), rooting their practices within recent artistic and activist scenes and theories and ancient regional philosophies, aesthetics and history — from Mesopotamian rituals to the music of Ancient Egypt and Sufism. Together we will imagine a total poetic of noise that unravels the dynamics of White Supremacist cis hetero patriarchal domination.

Accessibility Notes

  • This event includes auditive guidance.
  • This event includes text/images/video displayed on a large screen

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, Studies Project ” at least three (3) weeks prior to the event date.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “Studies Project.”

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    Location

    MR, 122CC – Courtyard Studio
    150 First Avenue
    New York, NY 10009

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    Artists

    Shirine Saad

    Shirine Saad

    Shirine Saad is a Beirut-born journalist, programmer and DJ focusing on culture and social change. They recently taught six courses in Arts Journalism and Criticism at Brown University, where they were the Founding Editor of a new multimedia arts journal, MOVEMENTS.

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