Performances

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• © The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Photo: Julieta Cervantes

Profile

• Basel Abbas born 1983 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Based in New York, USA and Ramallah, Palestine.
• Ruanne Abou-Rahme born 1983 in Boston, USA. Based in New York, USA and Ramallah, Palestine.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation, and performance practices. Their endeavors lie in traversing performativity, political imaginaries, physicality, and virtuality. Their approach is characterized by sampling both existing and self-produced materials in the form of sound, image, text, and objects, and recasting them into altogether new “scripts.” The result is a practice that investigates the political, emotional, and material possibilities of sound, image, texts, and sites taking the form of multimedia installations and live sound/image performances.
For Aichi Triennale 2025, the artists will present a new performative installation at a club specially reserved in Nagoya, featuring footage filmed in Palestine earlier this year along with performances by musicians and others invited from the region.

Selected exhibitions

2024

Solo exhibition, The song is the call and the land is calling, Copenhagen Contemporary & the Glyptotek (Denmark)

2024

Solo exhibition, Only sounds that tremble through us, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Massachusetts, USA)

2023

Solo exhibition, An echo buried deep deep down but calling still, Astrup Fearnley (Oslo, Norway)

2022

Solo exhibition, May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)/Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zurich, Switzerland)

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  Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

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