Tunning Body

TUNNING BODY, 2016
“Tunning Body” shows tension between violence, dance and sound. While the sticks are a Kurdish musical instrument, shimshal, they are at the same time sticks used in martial arts. The body takes position among these complexities, reflecting the reality of Kurdish society in Iraq.
The work grew from an experiment with body and sound, devised for the project “Clamour” Curated By Sherko Abbas at the exhibition hall institute of fine art, Sulaimaniyah
The first time the work was shown was as a video documentation of the actual performance.
For the first time I did the performance live and in front of an audience for the project Space21. This opens up possibilities for many other directions in which the work can develop. Simultaneously, it records layers of politics and history embedded in different locations.