Bitter Tongues
Session #4: Love in Exile
Join us for Bitter Tongue(s) Session #4: Love in Exile on Thursday April 23rd, for an evening of readings, screenings and performances. We invite our audience to question what it means to divorce a namesake, a homeland — to dream of normalcy until you arrive there. To feel at once in love and in despair with your diaspora. To see death from afar, to hear the screams as whispers, hoping a verse will reach the shore.
We’re excited to host three incredible artists: Dina Mimi, Parsa Adibi and Jumana Azzam. Bring your bitterness to this evening, starting from 7pm, we’ll provide some drinks and snacks.
Dina Mimi is an artist working in experimental film and moving image, exploring how, and when, bodies become sites of resistance. Often using found footage to explore themes including smuggling and tactics of movement, her work adopts non-linear forms of narration. She approaches editing as an open and exploratory process, experimenting with the opacity of footage – images that are “in the act of vanishing.”
Parsa Adibi is an Amsterdam-based artist working across design, language, and sound. Informed by his queer experience living in the closet under the Islamic Republic of Iran, he plays with concealment and revelation as dualities. Through organizing, writing and re-collecting, he encounters language as a material offering hope in queer futurity.
Jumana Azzam is a Syrian poet working from exile; her most recent book focuses on the origins of Arab poetry and the magical tradition of early Arab imagination.
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🔥Date: Thursday 23rd April
🔥Time: 19:00 - 21:00
🔥Location: Westerdoksdijk 597,
🔥Free, Please RSVP