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This live event, performed by artists Aakarsh Singh and Ahmed Bilal, revisits the sites and sounds of the Dubai Creek and Jameel’s courtyards from the Workshop: Synthesising Landscapes (part 1) on May 11, drawing from the field recordings and impressions gathered during the sensory walk.
Part performance and part open symposium, it brings together live coding, storytelling and speculative dialogue to explore how natural environments can be translated, glitched and reimagined through digital composition, shifting our impression of the environment from encounter to echo. As code becomes a tool for curating memory and nature, participants and audience alike are invited to consider how sound archives can be stretched, glitched and reimagined as curatorial material and collective, collaborative memory.
This programme is organised by the Assembly 2024-2025 members Ayesha Fernandes and Ioanna Orphanide as part of the 2025 Youth Takeover.
Ayesha Fernandes is a visual artist and designer and a member of the 2024-2025 cohort of the Assembly. She explores the material qualities of unconventional mediums by taking inspiration from nature and her surrounding environment. With a B.Sc in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah, her work often merges digital and analogue processes.
Ioanna Orphanide is a member of the 2024-2025 cohort of the Assembly. She is (1) a student of literature and (2) a poet. She is currently working on getting used to ‘artist’ as a title, one that she cannot help but hyphenate to reflect her background: hence, (3) commuter-artist. Commuting spatially between the Eastern Mediterranean and Arabian Gulf, conceptually between the post-colonial and historically-modern, and materially between the analog and born-digital (humanities and more). She also loves tea and confabulating excessively in multiple languages.
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