Letting Go | In the Cracks of my Lips
September 28th, 2023
• A collaborative performance, where I recited a spoken word piece “Letting Go,” and infused it together with Estela Gonzalezʼs piece “In the Cracks of my Lips,” through Oliver Roldanʼs guitar strumming.
• Together, we explored the retelling of violent encounters as women to transform them into our own narratives, where we commune with each other through the interweaving of experience, always addressed by the word. Hence, our work focuses on the role of the word as an enabling site of transformation with the potentiality to encapsulate the inherent violence present in language, which inevitably addresses the body given its societal nature, while at the same time being a tool to heal and gain agency. We aim for the reification of these experiences through poetry and music in a ʻcircularʼ encounter where violence, potentiality and transformation are in constant conversation, feeding from each other in a non-linear manner.
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Word Art
Word Art
A collaborative performance piece with Julia-Beth Harris
“The poets read separate pieces, dressed in kitchen aprons and headscarves, on either side of a table with each their own cooking pot. Random members of the audience are handed egg timers and a piece of paper with an ingredient written on it, which they read out loud to the performers when their timer rings. The poets incorporate this word into their recital of their piece, resulting in an absurd reading of emotional poetry interjected by culinary terms like falafel, cauliflower, and roasted potatoes.”
Sound experiment + 3D printed Vulva
March 11, 2023
I took part in “Viva la Vulva,” a festival celebrating body and gender diversity, where I created a sound piece, “Pinch,” and printed a 3D model of a vulva.
I placed it in the bathroom as a social intervention.
The sound piece explored points of objectification I experienced as a woman growing up in the middle east and how I dealt with them.
I decided to 3D print two models of vulvas, as a representation of the body, on one hand it is a point of objectification where the sound floats around and the object stays in place incapsulating this separation. On the other, it is a point of connection, through getting in touch with my own sexuality I am able to reconnect my body, the sound and the objects in place.
Finally, it also serves as a representation of how all those experiences are connected with the unspoken cultural construct of how the family’s “honour” is tied with the woman’s virginity, which feels very alien to the body.
