Ghaith Kween Qountainy

Here is a lifetime, a frozen frame, a glimpse, a potential too confused to adjoin the utopic, too true to un-touch. Have you met an Arab?

Flirting with the impossibility of completeness, in self defiance and inflicted revolt, the performer is here vis-á-vis a selected set of stereotypical cultural and political signifiers, arranged to disobey their  reductive nature in the eyes of the spectator, and installed to confide the performer's own apathy to them.

In three scenes, the performance opens up a dense casket of images, thoughts, controversies, and prejudices, stitched together in an implying enactment with and through them. Where is someone, really, when the margins are too many to be traced to an intersectionality where one can be located?

Ghaith Kween Qoutainy, a.k.a. Kween is a composer, performer, sound artist, and cultural curator whose practice moves across the edges and intersections of multiple media. Their work focuses on the (re)making of felt yet non-tangible spaces—affective, historical, and sonifeid—that govern orientations in space and through time.

Critical Friend: Sarjon Azouz

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