Ola Saad, Noran Sherif, Asma Azuz, Mahmoud Tariq Four young artists from Egypt present a range of shows along the lines of different directions in the field of electronic music accompanied by visual performances.
On Saturday 19 January 2013 8 p.m. Location: Medrar for contemporary Art 7 St. Gamal Eldin Abo ElMahasen, Garden City, First Floor
Ola Saad Works in the field of visual and audiovisual arts from 2008 Participated in several electronic music concerts and visual arts exhibitions https://soundcloud.com/ola-saad
Noran Sherif Using different media such as (video, audio, drawing, photography), participated in many exhibitions inside and outside Egypt. Interested in dual images “double exposures,” because they always have many thoughts, images and sounds swirling in their mind at the same moment, making it difficult for them to express all of this once a single image, so they find the video from one of the best means of expression. Also interested in abstract sounds and ambient sounds of different sources.
AsmaaAzouz Bachelor of Art Education 2009 Helwan University – postgraduate master’s degree – a member of the Syndicate of Plastic Artists – works in the field of contemporary audiovisual arts, participated in several art exhibitions.
Mahmoud Tarek Works in the electronic music field from 2010 He participated in many concerts and exhibitions, with interests in graffiti and street arts.
This month Medrar moved its activities to a newer bigger space in Garden City, near Downtown Cairo, to enable us as an organization to host exhibitions, workshops and other activities, in addition to utilizing a fully functional media lab for Medrar.tv and Open Lab Egypt.
The opening event featured a Ramadan Sohour and live audio visual performances by Nadah El-Shazly, DIJIT, Mohamed Abdelkarim and Dia Hamed.
Our new address is: 7 Gamal Eldin Abu Elmahasen St. / Garden City / Cairo, 1st Floor No. 4
Generally this program, “Fluttering Selfhoods,” focuses on the importance of transcending to the perspective of young art practitioners on the current situation in Cairo through diverse productions of individual-low budget videos. In the program presented, narration or story telling builds up the skeleton and connects the works together, nevertheless with diverse approaches to the topic and addressing a variety of issues compiled in the contemporary Egyptian society. Dealing mainly with concerns of a merge from cultural, political and economical statuses, through questioning identity, relationships, parenthood, aggression and freedom.
Presentation and live performance by Marcellí Antúnez Roca at the Townhouse gallery – factory space
Sistematurgy is a neologism created by Marcellí Antúnez Roca, that fuses the words system and dramaturgy. To denote the shift in the methodological paradigm entailed by grafting computation onto artistic and scenic practices.
About Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca: He is well known in the intern- ational art scene for his mechanotronic performances and robotic installations. In the nineties his avantguard performances combined such elements as: Sistematugy (interactive narration with computers) Bodybots (body-controlled robots) dresskeleton (the exoskeleton body interface). http://marceliantunez.com/
The musician Aida Nadeem is a Denmark based Iraqi artist. She has always presented her work in Europe and is currently preparing to meet with the Arab Public. The Karma Ibn Hane Center in Ahmed Shawki Museum will play host to the artist where she will present her self to the audience and acquaint them with her unique style in music, singing and performance as well.Aida NadeemSinger, musician and poet, born in Baghdad, studied classical music and completed her studies in Denmark. She works in the field of non-commercial or the so-called alternative music. She is an innovative character always on the look for new ideas. She enjoys folklore, heritage and the use of modern digital techniques in her music.
