Yara Mekawei

First Name: Yara

Last Name: Mekawei

Performing Art: sound art / electronic music / installation

City & Country: Cairo, Egypt

Artist in Residence at the Rote Fabrik from: 02.04.2019 - 27.06.2019

Through my reading of Islamic history, especially the books that explain the mystical Sufism methods and my continuing visits to Sufi celebrations in Egypt and Senegal, I was concerned with how they deal with the Islamic religion! How they worship? How they celebrate religion!?. There are many Sufism celebrations in Egypt and Senegal is one of the most important countries where Sufism is based. I was keen to record the sounds of celebrations from different scenes and places. I deal with the voices and sounds that I recorded as a document in conjunction with the novels and books that talks about the history of the Sufi method, Through my project at Rote Fabrik I try to install text with sound, to embody a different audio image of the Sufi ideology. I want to transforming the novels text into sounds, inspired by the spirit of mystical meanings that it contains, based on the recordings and the contents of the music of religious prayers.

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