Fatima Al Qadiri

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Fatima Al Qadiri ( Arabic فاطمة القديري, DMG Fāṭima al-Qādirī ; born July 1981 in Dakar , Senegal ) is a Kuwaiti musician and conceptual artist.

Life

Her mother is the painter Thuraya Al-Baqsami , her sister the artist Monira Al Qadiri . Her father was a Kuwaiti diplomat , which is why she was born in Senegal. When she was two years old, she moved to Kuwait. Fine art was very important in her childhood. The two sisters wrote their first song during the Second Gulf War .

After graduating from school, she received a Kuwait Ministry of Education scholarship to study in the United States. From 1999 she studied at various universities until she finally studied linguistics and art in New York . She lived in New York until 2015.

Under the name Ayshay she produced a capella -music.

Installation of GCC at the 2017 Whitney Biennial

Together with her sister and seven other it is part of the art collective GCC , named after the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). In 2012, the artists jointly created the Mendeel Um A7mad (NxIxSxM) art project , for which they received funding from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. Then the collective formed in 2013 in the VIP lounge of Art Dubai . Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid al Gharaballi , also a member of the collective, have been working together since 2006.

She is also a member of the music collective Future Brown .

For the Berlin Biennale in 2016 she created the soundtrack together with Hito Steyerl and Juliana Huxtable .

The 2017 EP Shaneera is named after an Arabic slang word for a queer person. The music of the EP combines the Arabic music genre Khaliji with the electronic music genres trap and grime .

She lives in Berlin .

Discography

Albums

  • Asian (2014; Hyperdub )
  • Brute (2016; Hyperdub)

EPs

  • Warn-U (2011; Tri Angle)
  • Genre-Specific Xperience (2011; UNO)
  • GSX Remixes (2012; UNO)
  • Desert Strike (2012; Fade to Mind)
  • Shaneera (2017; Hyperdub)

Film music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bidoun: Sweet Talk: A Conversation with Thuraya Al-Basqsami and Monira Al Qadiri. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Interview - “It's complicated”. In: Friday. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Fatima Al Qadiri Interview: Art Came First But Music is My Forte. In: Sleek. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Julian Weber: Album "Brute" by Fatima Al Qadiri: The song of the sirens . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 27, 2016, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed August 7, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Fatima Al Qadiri. In: Pitchfork Media. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ Edge Of Arabia - Contemporary art and creative movements from the Arab World. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Fatima Al Qadiri. In: Donaufestival. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Al Qadiri, Fatima
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kuwaiti musician and conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Dakar , Senegal