Julianne Chua & Anna Frehiwot Maconi, Yara Mekawei - Mutfak - 28th May 2024
Oroko Radio
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Description
"From the urban soundscapes of Cairo to sonic encounters with artefacts such as Nefertiti and Sakhmet at the Neues Museum in Berlin, sound artist Yara Mekawei probes the mysteries of existence by oscillating between antiquity and futurity. Melding the realms of Sufi poetry and ancient Egyptian funerary papyri such as The Book of the Dead, Mekawei creates layered compositions that translate hieroglyphs to Arabic to numbers to sonic signals via formulaic and affective registers. Tracing her work with digital technologies to encoding and decoding practices of families and tribes in Yemen from the 3rd century BC, we unravel how sound offers ways of mediating the cryptic, forbidden and unknown."
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