Boujloud Beats: Rhythms of Plurality

4 October 2024

until

15 December 2024
Sexyland World
Boujloud Beats: Rhythms of Plurality is a unique group exhibition in which artists explore the boundaries of art and identity, inspired by the Moroccan Boujloud ritual.

 

The title Boujloud Beats: Rhythms of Plurality refers to the way people constantly shift between different layers of their personality and how these layers sometimes come together or clash. The identity of the artist and how they navigate through society, expressing themselves in various forms, is just as important as the artwork itself. Just as the Boujloud ritual breaks aesthetic conventions, this exhibition does so by celebrating multiple identities and self-expression.

Is it possible to be a disabled, vampire, and Egyptian artist? Or a performance artist who is also a TikToker, a queer person from Syria who trolls conservative trolls in return? In this exhibition, the artists reflect on their queerness, neurodiversity, and “otherness,” challenging traditional views of identity by celebrating their unique self-expression. Together with Movement Director, curator, and dancer Mohamed Boujarra, they offer an alternative to the dominant Western standard that homogenizes everyone. The Boujloud exhibition builds on the themes of this centuries-old Moroccan carnival but from the perspective of contemporary artists who engage with both Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) identity and the queer community. How can art bring together seemingly clashing identities in a fluid way?

Participating artist:  Mounir Edib, Soukaina (Yeoja Makes), WeirDo, Simomo Bouj, Abu shhab, Imad Zoukanni, Yasemin Gheisari, Safae Labzae, Vanity Dusk en Tchach Projects.

Program:
18:00 – 19:30: Sensory-friendly opening
19:30 – 20:00: Documantary King Ridwan
20:00 – 22:00: Performance Program
22:00 – 01:00: Afterparty

Performance program:
Abu Shhab
Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich // Krüger
AZ OOR
Sammy Shefa Idris
Sheyma
Yasmina Tayoub aka GEM&I
WeirDo
Zobayda

Posters outside of the castle: Mounir Eddib, Soukaina (Yeoja Makes), WeirDo, Simomo Bouj, Abu Shhab, Imad Zoukanni, Yasmin Gheisari, Safae Labzae, Haneem Christian, Mariam Magsi, Vanity Dusk en Tchach Projects.

Supported by: Het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Het Cultuurfonds en Pictoright Fonds