“+1”
7 December, 2022 at 7pm
BIOS
Pireos 84
Athens
The event featured performances, talks, writings, videos, and music by Dina Mimi, Karim Kattan, Makimakkuk, Mary Jirmanus Saba, Mohammad Shawky Hassan, Natasha Soobramanien, Nile Sunset Annex, Noor Abed, and Noor Alsamarrai. Some of the projects were originally produced as part of the Read the Room Festival presented at Kaaitheater in March 2022 in Brussels.
7pm
Mary Jirmanus Saba
A Labor Theory of Artistic Value: On Motherhood and Artistic Genius
Audiovisual talk, 35 minutes
Text developed in collaboration with novelist Natasha Soobramanien and performed by Krystel Khoury. Exploring the intersections between gendered reproductive labor that keeps the cultural space in motion, and the reproductive labor of motherhood, this collaborative performance combines video projection, a delivered text, and a performative act of cultural maintenance.
Mary Jirmanus Saba (b. 1983, Lebanon/USA) is a geographer and filmmaker. She is currently on Instagram, @nomaternityleave, where she documents her developing collaborative practice with Nada Ziane (b. 2019) and Seri Kamil (b. 2021).
8pm
Nile Sunset Annex
Double Dummy Defense
Film (first screening), 20 minutes
Jenifer and Taha recently moved to a countryside village in the south of France. They are learning how to run the village grocery shop and how to play bridge with the local bridge club. Both activities have been useful to Jenifer and Taha in their attempts to assimilate, engage with the community, and learn French. They are presenting a performance filmed in Super-8 in which they share some of the skills they have learned.
Nile Sunset Annex (f. 2013, Egypt) is an evolving production and dispersion outfit for contemporary art, that was founded as a small self-funded art space that puts on exhibitions of artists’ work in a flat in Cairo. Since then, it has acted as a publisher, an art collection, an archivist, an editor, a technician, an artist, an author, a barmaid, or a curator when necessary, as well as taking a fairly long break.
9pm
Noor Abed
Mother: A Choreography of Readings
Staged readings, 60 minutes
Noor Abed creates a staged reading of four monologues and dialogues written by different writers, artists, and filmmakers with the theme “mother” vaguely running through them. In this live staging of the texts, Noor offers her own interpretations using sound and movement for which she collaborates with five performers: Marina Miliou, Martha Pasakopoulou, Eliza Soroga, Nathaniel Moore, and Parvin Saljoughi. The texts presented are “Fig Tree” by visual artist Dina Mimi (b. 1994, Palestine), “Rewind (or Rematch?)” by Karim Kattan (b. 1989, Palestine), “Lose Weight Now” by filmmaker Mohammad Shawky Hassan (b. 1981, Egypt), and “Food” by Noor Alsamarrai (b. 1992, Iraq/USA).
Noor Abed (b. 1988, Palestine) is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Her practice examines notions of choreography and the imaginary relationship of individuals, creating situations where social possibilities are both rehearsed and performed. In 2020, she co-founded, with Lara Khaldi, the “School of Intrusions,” an independent educational platform in Ramallah, Palestine. Noor is currently a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam 2022-24.
10:30pm
Nile Sunset Annex
Double Dummy Defense
Film (second screening), 20 minutes
Jenifer and Taha recently moved to a countryside village in the south of France. They are learning how to run the village grocery shop and how to play bridge with the local bridge club. Both activities have been useful to Jenifer and Taha in their attempts to assimilate, engage with the community, and learn French. They are presenting a performance filmed in Super-8 in which they share some of the skills they have learned.
Nile Sunset Annex (f. 2013, Egypt) is an evolving production and dispersion outfit for contemporary art, that was founded as a small self-funded art space that puts on exhibitions of artists’ work in a flat in Cairo. Since then, it has acted as a publisher, an art collection, an archivist, an editor, a technician, an artist, an author, a barmaid, or a curator when necessary, as well as taking a fairly long break.
11pm
Makimakkuk
Music performance, 60 minutes
Makimakkuk will carry through the night a music selection of some of her own productions as well as afro music, the likes of Amapiano, woven into a hybrid set of multi genre.
Makimakkkuk (b. 1988, Palestine) is a music artist, lyricist, and selector based in Ramallah, Palestine.
Curated by Mophradat
Produced by Niamh Moroney & Mare Spanoudaki
Visual communication by Haitham Haddad
With thanks to Reem Shilleh
The evening was realized with the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and in cooperation with Allianz Kulturstiftung.