What’s On
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Baraari, Haykal and Julmud
- Performing Arts
- Vicinity of Aichi Arts Center
Performances
World Premiere, New CommissionInstallationNight club eventMusicTitle TBD
- © The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Photo: Julieta Cervantes
- © The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Photo: Julieta Cervantes
- © The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Photo: Julieta Cervantes
- © The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Photo: Julieta Cervantes
- © The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
- Photo: Julieta Cervantes
Encounter the Present of Palestine ̶ A New Live Performance
Using their new footage, filmed this year, of a Palestinian landscape under continued threat of erasure, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme incorporate the film into a performative installation. At a club venue in Nagoya, they create an immersive environment interwoven with live performances by Haykal, Julmud, and Barari, musicians brought here from Palestine. Fragments of video convey present-day Palestinians’ resistance to oblivion, searching for a reconnection to a severed broken land, community, history, and an insistence on remaining on and with their land.
Date
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PERFORMANCE
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* Minors allowed until
Venue
Live & Lounge Vio · CLUB MAGO (Naka-ku)
(flex building b2, 2-1-9 Shinsakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya)
Performance time
90-120min.
Tickets
- Adult
- ¥3,500 (includes one drink)
- U25
- ¥2,000 (includes one drink)
* Same-day tickets (General and U25) are ¥500 more than the advance price.
* Pair tickets (6,500 Yen) are sold only in advance. (includes one drink (for two persons))
Seating
No Seating
Staff
- Performance:
- Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Baraari, Haykal, Julmud, and others.
Performance flyer
It will be released at a later date.
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
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- 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)
Baraari
Baraari is a dynamic musician, MC, and singer based in Ramallah, Palestine, whose work bridges genres and pushes creative boundaries. Her music blends Arabic melodies with an array of international and local influences, exploring genres like Hip Hop, Drill, Grime, and Experimental sounds.
Haykal
Haykal is a Palestinian artist, writer, and musician producing work since 2012. His practice navigates between political and cultural themes intertwined with personal reflections. In 2020, he participated in Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s multipart project May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth, with live performances held at the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (Zurich) and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo).
Julmud
Baraari is a dynamic musician, MC, and singer based in Ramallah, Palestine, whose work bridges genres and pushes creative boundaries. Her music blends Arabic melodies with an array of international and local influences, exploring genres like Hip Hop, Drill, Grime, and Experimental sounds.
