Ibraaz: One Year
Art, ideas, music, film, publishing, food, prayer, and debate
- Date and Time:
Thu 15 Oct, 6–9pm
- Location:
- Majlis
Join us for an evening of music and hospitality throughout the building, alongside works and projects by Earshot, Gabrielle Goliath, Joe Namy and Taring Padi.
About Elegy:
In the Minassa, Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy gathers collective acts of mourning around lives and histories marked by violence, erasure and structural loss. Developed over more than a decade through encounters in Johannesburg, Cape Town, São Paulo, Paris and Amsterdam, the work brings together voices and moving images across eight funerary monoliths, moving between contexts including rape culture and femicide in South Africa, the genocide of Ovaherero and Nama peoples in Namibia, and the ongoing devastation of Palestinian life.
About Rakyat Pasti Menang:
Rakyat Pasti Menang, Bahasa Indonesia for ‘the people united will never be defeated’, brings together major works and archival material from the Taring Padi's nearly thirty-year history. The exhibition takes its title from the protest chants heard during the sociopolitical upheaval of Indonesia’s Reformasi movement in the late 1990s. Rooted in the historical moment from which Taring Padi emerged, the phrase continues to resonate today, demonstrating how the collective has carried its spirit of solidarity and resistance into new political and cultural contexts.
About Earshot Library-in-Residence:
In the Iqra, Earshot-Library-in-Residence brings sound not as atmosphere, but as argument. Over nine months, the space becomes a site of sonic inquiry, where recordings are interrogated and listening becomes both exercise and method. From the Field, a multichannel audio experience drawn from Earshot’s eco-acoustic field recordings, plays alongside three listening stations presenting The Crack and the Boom, Authentic Audio and The Sonic Identikit. Together, they ask not only what a sound is, but how it is heard, by whom, through which technologies, and within what social, legal and political conditions.
About Cosmic Breath:
Cosmic Breath is a sound installation by artist Joe Namy composed of recordings of the adhan – the Islamic call to prayer. It brings together historical and contemporary calls from different geographies, amplified through horn speakers synonymous with those perched on the minarets of mosques. Designed to be listened to both individually and simultaneously, the work evokes the constancy of the adhan across place and time as a unifying spiritual and sonic practice. Each recording carries a unique character shaped by acoustic environments, sonic traditions, and local histories.