Wednesday August 5, 2009 at 8pm
Entrance: 15 000 LL |
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  About the event |
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Horror is Universal (The End) is Raed Yassin’s latest multimedia saga involving the deconstruction of Arab popular culture. For the last five years Yassin has been undergoing a lifetime project of audio and visual sampling of TV, radio, pop songs, feature and documentary films. His previous projects include Ya Habibi Ta’ala (focusing on Tarab), Meeting the President and other pieces for Praed (his duo with Paed Conca), or the installation work The Best of Sammy Clark. This new piece, in its live version, is a milestone in his evolving work. Although composed, it requires his presence and energy for the multiple layers of information to blend in. Soundwise, a combination of turntables and electronics, microphone for singing, a collection of vintage hard to find LPs of popular Arabic music. He does not merely mix the sounds, he performs them, twisting every sample with a style that has become his own. On the screen, a video mixture of extracts from Egyptian films, reshaped and rearranged, abstracted, recurring such as musical elements to create a loose progression towards a final point.
With Horror is Universal (The End), Raed Yassin sets a very high standard for all those interested in the “plunder” approach to all the mass media that have shaped our youth.
The performance will be followed by the release party of the label Annihaya Records' very first album "The New Album".
Born in Beirut in 1979, Raed Yassin is a video, sound and visual artist, as well as a musician (double bass, tapes and electronic) and a part-time curator. He graduated from the Theatre Department of the Lebanese University in Beirut. In his work, Yassin uses images, music, and text to deal with themes relating to mass media, pop culture, pornography, the city, Arab cinema, the history of contemporary art, disasters, and archives. He has exhibited across Europe, the Middle East, the United States, and Japan. Currently, Yassin lives and works between Amsterdam and Beirut. |
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