My Work and Personal Highlights of 2022

Sharing a list of all the things I worked on this year, and cities I travelled to. This is mostly a personal exercise to keep track of what I did and achieved.

New Artwork:

In the summer of 2020, I started work on a video titled A Performance of Valour. It was a commission for Abu Dhabi Art’s Emerging Artist program curated by Maya El Khalil and was exhibited in November as a work in progress. The aim was to complete it before the exhibition ended in January 2021, but it ended a month earlier and I never got a chance to complete it the way I wanted to. I finally managed to complete it this year, for Portrait of a Nation: Beyond Narratives exhibition, also curated by Maya El Khalil.

For now, the video is only available to watch by request, so if you’re interested, get in touch. But below are a couple of gifs and description.

A Performance of Valour
Video, 4.08 min, 2020/2022

A meditation on masculinity, performance, representation and national identity. A collage of found footage, film excerpts and stock videos, its starting point is the 1980 World Disco Dancing Championship in London which included a participant from the United Arab Emirates.

Music produced and remixed by Moath "Qonami" Bin Hafez.

Supported by:
Abu Dhabi Art's Beyond: Emerging Artists 2020 (Abu Dhabi Art)
Portrait of a Nation II: Beyond Narratives, 2022 (Abu Dhabi Art & Music Foundation)
Curated by Maya El-Khalil

 

Writings:

 

Podcast:

 

Film Programming / Curation:

 
  • Unpacking the ArteArchive - ArteEast
    What Existed Yesterday Might Disappear Tomorrow, a programme of short films co-presented by ArteEast and Tribe. The films were shown online and I hosted one in-person screening in Dubai at Alliance Francaise with a post screening discussion with Nezar Andary about film history and archive in the region.

 

Talks:

 

Travels and Film Festivals:

Paris, April 2022

 

Other highlights:

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