Mudam (Auditorium)
Lecture-performance by Omar Kholeif and Evi Vingerling in the framework of the exhibition Lubaina Himid & Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day
From the evening sky, we will descend to a darkened auditorium, where myths are explored, disentangled and reborn. A soprano – reaching for the stars – her voice once lost to time, will rise from the ocean and be found in a vessel of memory.
What does listening to the female voice do to the listener? And what does the embodied experience of singing do for the performer?
In this new lecture-performance, Egyptian-born, British-Sudanese curator, writer and poet Omar Kholeif, together with Dutch-American artist and educator Evi Vingerling, has devised a journey to retrieve women’s voices that have been lost to the past. Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska’s installation Zanzibar (1997–2023) acts as a springboard into The Dreamwork space.
Over the course of their convening, the duo will present live readings; trails of correspondence and poetry; and archival pictures, video clips and live songs that explore how the personal archive fashions collective memory.
The various shapes friendship may take are explored through tales of pirates and sirens, Aboriginal art and Dreaming, the smells of city streets from Lisbon to Sharjah, the loss of certain sensations and the realisation of others. To whom it may concern – to you, the audience – this is a ballad shared among women who choose to imagine the world otherwise.
The Dreamwork forms part of an ongoing exploration developed within the book series imagine/otherwise, published by Sternberg Press and artPost 21. - Visual : Luísa Correia Pereira, ‘Trois Cabanes Seules’, detail, 1974. Mixed media on paper. Courtesy of the aP21 Collection, UK. Image courtesy of Collection São Roque, Lisbon
- Language : English
- Duration : 14.30-16.00
- Ida & Friends’ Session : Comfortable shoes are recommended
- Participation fee : 10€ / Free for students and Kulturpass
- Booking required : mudam.com/rsvp-artist-talk