Mamluk Shadows
2024Presented at Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) campus in partnership with dear friend, historian, resarcher, educator and collaborator Beshouy Botros. A performance and installation using Islamic lanterns and electronic music to “play in the dark” (Toni Morrison, Whiteness and the Literary Imagination). Tracing aural and visual shadows, we cast Orientalist photo-negatives, while producing a soundscape commemorating ongoing tragedies in Arabic. We also recast the Mamluks, a sultanate of Caucasian warrior slaves who ruled over Egypt, the Hijaz, and greater Palestine from the 13th to 16th centuries. A more celebratory soundscape follows, inviting visitors to move and cast their own shadows.

Mamluk Shadows, 2024
Sound and ritual performance (light, sound, video projections, Q&A lecture session)
Running time: 30 minutes, 55 seconds
Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), New Haven, CT, USA
In collaboration with Beshouy Botros
April 12, 2024
Sound and ritual performance (light, sound, video projections, Q&A lecture session)
Running time: 30 minutes, 55 seconds
Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM), New Haven, CT, USA
In collaboration with Beshouy Botros
April 12, 2024


