Conference on Etel Adnan by Jassem Hindi
In this conference, dancer/performer Jassem Hindi will discuss the poem The Arab Apocalypse, a landmark work by poet and artist Etel Adnan.
Description
In this text, Etel Adnan, an unassuming but major figure in Levantine culture, demonstrates that understanding cycles of violence and the living traces of suffering requires immersion in the history and scintillating cosmogonies of pre-Islamic times. Etal’s work, baroque and cruel, captures the intensity of being alive in a time of war. The Arab Apocalypse is a labyrinth of suffering but is also an act of liberation, a space for healing, empathy, and love.
Jassem Hindi will explore how this poem has been interpreted politically and artistically. He will transfer the cues and responses of Western culture to the imaginative practices of West Asia. Like many others, Jassem Hindi forged his early years in Etel’s footsteps. Her texts and life experience have given him tools for survival.
Even after her passing, Etel Adnan remains a source of inspiration and support for hundreds of artists with roots in West Asia.
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Jassem el Hindi
A French Lebanese/Palestinian artist living in Norway. Works with sound, installations and choreography. He uses the double bind of haunting and hospitality as a way to articulate political realms. His work is based on ruins of folk dances and broken poems to create dark cosmological worlds, Some of his dance and sound works have been translated into visual and sound installations. His latest pieces, Laundry of Legends and Sun Eaters, are inspired by Arabic death poems (Etel Adnan, Nazik el Malaika), gothic poetry (Aase Berg, Tor Ulven) and contemporary folk dances from Norway, Brittany and West Asia. He performs and presents his work internationally from Montreal to Seoul. His work as a sound artist has been featured in numerous award winning dance performances around the world. He is one of the founding members of the Palestinian Agency.
le Gesù
The Centre de créativité du Gesù offers audiences and artists spaces and experiences that inspire, encourage questioning, and provoke encounters, with the aim of fostering expression and accessibility to art.
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Jassem Hindi
