Saturday Hangout: Artist Talk with Adam & Amina Seid Tahir + Listening Session
Isabelle Edi hosts a conversation with Adam and Amina Seid Tahir about their artistic work and the reference points of their performance several attempts at braiding my way home. The talk will transform into a listening session based on oceanic motifs.
a moment of closed eyes.
that we can surrender,
that we can let off,
that we can find a moment of devotion in listening.
entering the horizontal,
meeting the ear
expanding into a meditative time and feeling
breathe deeply.
make it your own.
born in Hamburg in 1996, is an artist, costume designer, curator and DJ. Her artistic projects rotate around the existence of Black bodies in white-dominated cultural landscapes and the possibilities and reception of these in the moving image out of a diasporic position. The work can be described as an artistically and scientifically expanded concept of costume that negotiates around topics of Black identity and post-migrant perspectives. Metamorphosing into isocialbutterflyy, spherical surfaces get mixed with house and breaking beats and influences from diverse genres, such as pop, jungle, RnB and trance.