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Mohamed Abdelkarim
We continue our interviews on the Sonic Spaces platform, with sound practitioners from Egypt and the Arab world about private and public audio archives. We will also be discussing the degree to which sound influences their artistic practices and research, as well as their contributions to reshaping the local context, and the creation of a decentralized sonic environment, that flows from research into collective and urban memory, transiting bodies, and our relationship to the future. During this meeting with the Egyptian artist Mohamed Abdelkarim, we focus on these aspects of his sonic experience that integrates his performance works overlapped between the spectrum of the text and what is written to be spoken. Mohamed Abdelkarim is a performer, filmmaker, and researcher living and working between Cairo and Rotterdam. He received his MA in Arts in public spheres from édhéa /ecav, CH, 2016 and is currently Ph.D. candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Abdelkarim’s practice is performance-oriented. He considers performance as a research method and a practice through which he produces texts and images that embody multiforms. He employs and reflects on performative acts like narrating, singing, detecting, doing, fictioning and, recently, speculating. His recent umbrella project focuses on the agency of the landscape as a witness of “a history we missed and a future we did not attend yet”. His works have been included in the PhotoCairo 5 and 6, CIC, Cairo Sharjah-biennial 11, Guild Master of Cabaret Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Live Works Performance Act Award Vol.5, and Berlinale 72 /Forum Expanded, 2022.
We continue our interviews on the Sonic Spaces platform, with sound practitioners from Egypt and the Arab world about private and public audio archives. We will also be discussing the degree to which sound influences their artistic practices and research, as well as their contributions to reshaping the local context, and the creation of a decentralized sonic environment, that flows from research into collective and urban memory, transiting bodies, and our relationship to the future. During this meeting with the Egyptian artist Mohamed Abdelkarim, we focus on these aspects of his sonic experience that integrates his performance works overlapped between the spectrum of the text and what is written to be spoken.
Mohamed Abdelkarim is a performer, filmmaker, and researcher living and working between Cairo and Rotterdam. He received his MA in Arts in public spheres from édhéa /ecav, CH, 2016 and is currently Ph.D. candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Abdelkarim’s practice is performance-oriented. He considers performance as a research method and a practice through which he produces texts and images that embody multiforms. He employs and reflects on performative acts like narrating, singing, detecting, doing, fictioning and, recently, speculating. His recent umbrella project focuses on the agency of the landscape as a witness of “a history we missed and a future we did not attend yet”.
His works have been included in the PhotoCairo 5 and 6, CIC, Cairo Sharjah-biennial 11, Guild Master of Cabaret Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Live Works Performance Act Award Vol.5, and Berlinale 72 /Forum Expanded, 2022.
Mohamed Abdelkarim
We continue our interviews on the Sonic Spaces platform, with sound practitioners from Egypt and the Arab world about private and public audio archives. We will also be discussing the degree to which sound influences their artistic practices and research, as well as their contributions to reshaping the local context, and the creation of a decentralized sonic environment, that flows from research into collective and urban memory, transiting bodies, and our relationship to the future. During this meeting with the Egyptian artist Mohamed Abdelkarim, we focus on these aspects of his sonic experience that integrates his performance works overlapped between the spectrum of the text and what is written to be spoken.
Mohamed Abdelkarim is a performer, filmmaker, and researcher living and working between Cairo and Rotterdam. He received his MA in Arts in public spheres from édhéa /ecav, CH, 2016 and is currently Ph.D. candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Abdelkarim’s practice is performance-oriented. He considers performance as a research method and a practice through which he produces texts and images that embody multiforms. He employs and reflects on performative acts like narrating, singing, detecting, doing, fictioning and, recently, speculating. His recent umbrella project focuses on the agency of the landscape as a witness of “a history we missed and a future we did not attend yet”.
His works have been included in the PhotoCairo 5 and 6, CIC, Cairo Sharjah-biennial 11, Guild Master of Cabaret Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Live Works Performance Act Award Vol.5, and Berlinale 72 /Forum Expanded, 2022.