We're very pleased to announce the recipients of our Digital Residency supported by the PRS Foundation Talent Development Partnership in association with Youth Music.
Bint Mbareh is curious about communal sounds and sovereignty over the sonic space as a communal resource. Her most recent research was an exploration of how rain-summoning song and ritual in Palestine acted and may continue to act as a ritual of time-bending. This research was adapted into an installation at Sakiya for Art, Science, Agriculture and Darat al-Funun in Amman. The performed iteration of this research took on call and response formats, with intentional silences and improvised vocalisation to challenge the drive to archive unwieldy data-sets (eg. old women telling stories and singing rain songs and interrupting themselves when they want to). Instead Bint Mbareh opted to become like the data-set, improvised and unarchivable. She performed her rain ritual at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin, Exist Festival at Khalil Sakakini Centre in Ramallah, Maastricht's InBetween Festival, and London's EFG Jazz Festival.
Zinzi, also known as FAUCI, is a self directed, multidisciplinary artist. Their practice explores Music Production, Experimental Filmmaking, Songwriting, Dance, and Choreography. All of their artistic interests intertwine and help inform each other. Zinzi is self taught as a musician, and has undergone training as a dancer. They are in the process of trying to unlearn the outdated ideologies that their dance training has posed upon them as an experimental artist and they use their music as a way to explore new ways of working from an untainted and self empowered place.
