Blue Gaze at The Future (Ongoing)
Performance/installation 40 minutes, 2024
Blue Gaze at the Future is a series of audiovisual performances and installations combining text, radio drama, and visuals. It questions the theater stage as a landscape that can reorder fractured reality, proposing a different world. The project follows the legend of Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma, a woman who lived in the pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula and was known for her exceptional intuition, sharp eyesight, clairvoyance, and ability to predict events before they occurred. The project traces and contemplates her apparitions in contemporary literature post-1967, redefining hope in the face of ruin, grief, and defeat. It questions how we can imagine a future hope that copes with grief and reconciles defeat—considering notions of negativity, grief, and defeat as rational apparatuses rather than psychic affects.
At De Appel, Amsterdam, 2024
Installation view, ARD Art, Cairo, 2024
An extract of video material is activated through the performance.