PALESTINE / UK

The channel to a neighbour I have not yet met, 2022.

Sound installation with holographic fan, candles, fabric, 20 minutes.

In 1267, the procession of the prophet Moses began to be celebrated in an area near the lowest point on earth called Khan-al-Ahmar, with an eerie resemblance to the planet Mars. In 1920, the British Mandate of Palestine determined that the festival was persistently pushing spirits communally and incubating protests against incoming Zionist settler colonialism, and decided to put a stop to it.

Decades later, DJ Sama Abdulhadi took to the location as a site for celebration and filmed herself with the support of the Palestinian Authority doing a techno DJ-set. Once again, and for the 3rd or 4th time in a century, a kind of revolution asserting the importance of the location erupted. Subsequently, The channel to a neighbour I have not yet met imagines the future of visitations to the shrine.

The artist locates sound as a productive means of refusal in the rupture between now/then, living/deceased, from here/not from here. Visitors may feel welcome to light candles, as is tradition, and to listen to the sound that accompanies the work.