𝔉𝔞𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔟𝔞𝔡 𝔉𝔬𝔯 𝔖𝔞𝔩𝔢
Collateral Event: Dhaka Art Summit 2023 বন্যা Time-based programming
5 February, 2023
3-4.20 pm at📍Rouf's Villa, Faydabad
Melding Dhaka metal music and neglected architecture, 𝔉𝔞𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔟𝔞𝔡 𝔉𝔬𝔯 𝔖𝔞𝔩𝔢 is a performance and installation by the artist Omar Chowdhury and কে বা কাহারা (Ke ba kahara). At the site of a private villa by renowned architect Marina Tabassum, the performance uncovers the tangled history of an imported modernism and its obsolescence by the contemporary aesthetic of Bangladesh’s voracious new rise. Through a choreography of architectural interventions, moving images, guitar score, and performance, a speculative present is enacted that is haunted by doubt, private regret and ruinous anticipation.
About 𝔉𝔞𝔶𝔡𝔞𝔟𝔞𝔡 𝔉𝔬𝔯 𝔖𝔞𝔩𝔢
Commissioned by Ke ba kahara. Curated by Sadia Rahman and co-produced by Ke ba kahara and Muhammad Anwar Hossain. Guitar score composed and performed by Mihad Rafi. With special thanks to Marina Tabassum, Khaled Mahmud and Helena Kritis. Research and early development supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia through the 2020 Now On grant. A collateral event of Dhaka Art Summit 2023 বন্যা. Printing supported by nokta.Downloads
Installation stills
About the Faydabad project (2020-23)
Haunted by doubt, regrets and ruinous anticipation. A two-part conceptual performance, architectural intervention and installation by Omar Chowdhury (BD/AU) essaying a charismatic modernist building by the architect Marina Tabassum that is equally desirable and overwhelming to all who pass through it. Two chapters, separated by a history of rupture and a mnemonic gap of over two years.Walk through: Bait Ur Rouf Jame Mosque
Collateral Event: Dhaka Art Summit 2023 বন্যা Time-based programming
5 February, 2023
2-2.45 pm at📍Bait Ur Rouf Jame Masjid, Faydabad, Dakshin Khan, Dhaka
Designed and constructed by Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), Bait Ur Rouf Jame Mosque is located in Faydabad, at the north-east periphery of Dhaka.
« সংলাপ » for LUMIN x Peak Cymru
LUMIN x Peak Cymru: Darllediad Radio LUMIN Radio Broadcast
3 December 2022
Digital audio recording. 40m 39s. Sadia Rahman and Priyanka Hutschenreiter (AT/BD). 2022.
Thinking in concert: autonomy, friendship and collaboration through the ether. On co-writing ‘Creating the Incomprehensible “Us”: Architecture, Islam, Modernity and Nation’.
Broadcast from #Platfform2, Abergavenny Train Station.
Listen from Platfform 2 + Online Gwrandewch o Blatfform 2 + Ar-lein
Across 2022 LUMIN have been imagining and designing a decentralised, itinerant radio station to continue their occasional digital broadcast Local 37. On Saturday 3 December, LUMIN will be making their first broadcast from #Platfform2, Abergavenny Train Station.
Featuring live, site-specific, dialogic, and recorded sound work from artists including Gyda gwaith sain byw, safle-benodol, deialogol, wedi’i recordio gan artistiaid yn cynnwys:
Lauren Craig, Mort Drew, কে বা কাহারা / Ke ba kahara, Sadia Rahman, Marva Jackson Lord, Daniel Trivedy, Radha Patel, Umulkhayr Mohamed, Cecelia Graham, Owen Griffiths and Diego Gutierrez Valladares; plus Priyanka Hutschenreiter, Dafydd Jenkins, Grace Jackson, Bog Cottage, Manuela Moser, Kate Murphy, Rebecca Chesney and Lubaina Himid (The Storm by Rebecca Chesney and Lubaina Himid. Commissioned by TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien, 2021).
Drwy 2022 mae LUMIN wedi bod yn dychmygu ac yn dylunio gorsaf radio ddatganoledig a theithiol i barhau â’u darllediad digidol achlysurol Local 37. Ddydd Sadwrn, 3 Rhagfyr, bydd LUMIN yn gwneud eu darllediad cyntaf o Blatfform 2, Gorsaf Drenau’r Fenni.
Listen (1) on-site at Platfform 2, Abergavenny Train Station & (2) online at https://lumin-press.com/
Curated by LUMIN
Supported by Peak Cymru / Casgleb and Arts Council Wales