Bright Echo/Acts of Memory – Tyburnia
Sophia Al-Maria
18 July, 3.30pm
Nutford Place W2 2DZ
Bright Echo presents the listener with a sonic landscape composed of the internal monologues and secrets of the street.
You can download it from here or on shubbak.co.uk from 18 July 2015.
To mark the launch of Bright Echo, Sophia Al-Maria has responded to Alia Farid’s A Stage for Any Revolution by organising Acts of Memory – Tyburnia, a performance of Monica Ross’ original piece Anniversary – an act of memory which is a collective, multilingual recitation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Acts of Memory – Tyburnia will be performed at 3.30pm at Nutford Place.
A collaboration between Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar and the Edgware Road Project at the Serpentine Galleries, Continuous City: Mapping Arab London is a publication that attempts to map London through its historical and contemporary Arab communities.Continuous City features work by Sophia Al Maria, Oraib Toukan,Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Inas Halabi, Maan Abu Taleb, Michael Vazquez and Sheyma BuAli among others. The publication is edited by Amal Khalaf and Deena Chalabi. The publication will be available for download on iTunes in 2016.
Sophia Al-Maria is a writer who lives in London now. In 2012 her first book, The Girl Who Fell to Earth received high praise in the United States from The New York Times to Elle Magazine and is being published in Arabic as Between the Earth and the Sky this year. In January 2015 Sophia was selected for the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting Lab where she worshipped her Egyptian revenge thriller, Beretta. Her first solo show Virgin with a Memory at Manchester’s Cornerhouse drew on the subject matter of the film and the un-making of it.
Bright Echo is commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries, the British Council and Shubbak.
For more information, or to take part in the performance please contact Projects Curator Amal Khalaf on amalk@serpentinegalleries.org
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