Repeated Apparitions // Basma Alsharif Ouroboros with a performance from Catherine Feliz

About

We're delighted to present this event as the first of four taking place at The Horse Hospital as part of the Repeated Apparitions. The programme is an offering that muses over repetitive cycles of oppression, their social invisibility and normalisation. Through a shared exploration of radical images, wild experimental sounds and evocative texts, the programme looks at how repetition can be used to create processes of reparation and renewal, disrupt the past and imagine new realities. 

The presented screening is captioned and the event is BSL interpreted by Sign For All.

Presenting:

Ouroboros dir Basma Alsharif, 77', Palestine, France, Belgium; 2017

‘Aching a pain for what has remained, refusing to disappear’ narrates Sky Hopinka in Ourobouros, the first feature film by visual artist Basma Alsharif. Through the symbolism of an ancient serpent eating its own tail as an invocation of the notions of eternity and cyclical time, this experimental documentary filmed by Ben Russell, is an homage to the Gaza Strip and to the possibility of hope based on the eternal return. Following a man traversing five different landscapes in non-linear cycles, often in reverse, Alsharif creates a space outside of time, mediated by trauma and dislocation. Marking the end as the beginning and otherwise, the film asks: how can we move forward when all is lost?

The film will be accompanied by a live-streamed performance from CATHERINE FELIZ performing their musical project PrieSTusSSY.

Catherine (b. 1992, New York, NY, Lenapehoking) is an interdisciplinary artist and medicine person with roots in Ayiti, a.k.a Dominican Republic. Entangled across the mediums of sculptural installation, time based media, and book forms, their work explores earth-based pathways for disarming apparatuses of violence and their cycles of trauma.

PrieSTusSSY is Catherine’s debut experimental album, cantos de àjẹ́, that was created using analog synthesizers and digital editing during bedroom sessions. Inspired by industrial noise and jîbaro songs alike. cantos de àjẹ́ the album keeps Taino and Yoruba creation stories alive with visceral visions of caves, wombs, vultures, and dark matter.