Postcolonial Experiences
For the pilot event of the series, the topic was Postcolonialism and three artists were invited to perform:
Fay (they/them) is an Arab performance artist based in the Netherlands. their work deals with durational research developed through bodies, tongues and the precarity of presence. their urgency to create art comes from their need to find language by utilizing a methodology of stealing time. stealing time comes in the form of long durational rituals that invites others to think along the question at the heart of fay’s current research on “how can a precarious body preserve itself?”
Denk neni ( ድንቅ ነን) (he/him) is a poet and hip-hop artist from Ethiopia, currently residing in Rotterdam. His work revolves around the themes of love, life, resistance, struggle, and the communist utopia he envisions for humanity, where equality exists in its purest form, where we are governed by love and morality. He takes a lot of inspiration from prayer to God, hip-hop artists, books, soul music, and the day-to-day existence and interaction with the living and non-living.
(IG: @denk_neni)
ABU SHHAB (They/He/She) was a show girl, online troll, conceptual performer and an audio/visual artist working with vanity as a research space in identity politics. A novelist without novels, they created and performed an excessive amount of alter egos and characters with many different story arcs and urgencies, in time writing their own narratives in various contexts of nightlife, online platforms, museums, clubs and contemporary art spaces. Abushhab’s latest framework used troll debates as a medium of research in social media platform to engage with harmful political rhetorics and oppose it with vulgar satire.
During the event the character of Abu Shhab was eulogized in a performance-lecture by Al-Shaheen Baby Falcon.
(IG: @alshaheenbabyfalcon)
