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BINT
SOLVE ET COAGULA → عيب, Stage I: تسويد (The Blackening)
2023'Stage I: تسويد (The Blackening)’ is the initial burning of the gathered dross. The black of burning, the first whiff of char. The cloak of pain and shame of being othered, of exile and alienation. The rot of festering emotions finally uncorked. Though, the alchemical texts also remind us black is the fertile soil; key to the next stage of new growth and rebirth.
Sound art, ritual performance and minimal drone using cassette tape loops, walkmans, guitar pedal, water, glass. 2023.
Running length: 39′ 28″
Date: 10 March 2023
Running length: 39′ 28″
Date: 10 March 2023
BINT will navigate the gathering through the process of dissolution via frequency, traversing–often viscerally–the spaces between dissonance and harmony, noise and rhythm, tradition and transgression. She will be ritualistically opening up the space deconstructing a traditional composition and instruments (vocals, harmonium, field recordings) through live sampling, synthesizers, and pedals.
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ABOUT THE SERIES
BINT has been collecting anonymous experiences of shame from folks of the SWANA (South West Asian / North African) diaspora. These communally-individual experiences will be the focus of her 2023 residency she is naming "عيب:Solve et Coagula.” Over the course of the year, she will be presenting three commissioned programs mirroring the primary stages of (Arabic) alchemical transmutation. All three programs will be audiovisual immersive sound rituals loosely based on the structure and setting of Sufi sem’a gatherings, in which these collective experiences of shame are transmuted through sound and ritual processing, as experienced through the audience. Sem'a is a traditional Sufi gathering in which a third communal space is created (often underground hidden from orthodox authorities) for active deep listening and collective participatory expressions of devotional music, chanting, and rhythm.
