Скачать или смотреть ‎⁨اجساد من علق Our queer future is a past tense | Multidisciplinary performance by Ahmad Baba

Ahmad Baba will show his Multidisciplinary performance at Oyoun on 05.05.2023 at 19:30 h.
Doors open: 19:00 h.
Language: English, Arabic

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(’أجسَادٌ مِن عَلَق) Our Queer future is a past tense’ is an installation performance in a form of a promenade, based on a post migration perspective on Queerness in relation to Arab* Identity(s). As a term, Queerness does not exist in Arabic. However, it does and did exist as a practice, one that goes back further than the global queerness; that Western hegemony imposed on the globe. The language of queerness becomes hegemonic through erasing identities that existed before it and subsuming/substituting vast and complex communities, histories, and languages across the globe with a monolithic, generalizing Western model of understanding and approaching sexual and gender diversity. Ahmad Baba will take the audience through a journey between different temporal and spatial dimensions of "queer" existence. : an invisible past, incorporating linguistic, social, cultural, and religious elements on erotic, sexual and "non-normative" discourses from classical Arab* manuscripts. Into a distorted present that challenge the hegemony of Western narratives about Arabo-Islamic sexual and gender identities, Towards imagining a utopic future that holds more questions than offer answers. “Ilk علق” is an attempt to engage with these questions! It is an investigation into how queerness has become a form of colonialism, erasing and homogenizing many identities and ways of being that do not necessarily fit under it as an umbrella term, but are nonetheless drawn to it due to the lack of taxonomies and terms that signify and encompass collective queer existences in their own contexts.

Directed and performed: Ahmad Baba
Assistant Director: Mansur Ajang
Cinematography: Mansur Ajang
Design and Editing: Ahmad Baba
Thanks to Joey Bania, Fadi Saleh and Roman Valenta.

This performance was made possible, with the support of AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture)
آفاق الصندوق العربي للثقافة والفنون