IN CINEMA
WORKSHOP WITH MUYASSAR KURDI –
A POEM FOR REMEMBERING
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
Saturday, September 14th at 4PM
Interdisciplinary artist Muyassar Kurdi’s workshop will focus on the relationship between body and voice with an emphasis on awareness through movement, spontaneity, and meditative improvisation. Participants will explore sound, movement, and image through exercises built on trust, deep listening, and slow, concentrated, ‘soul-generated’ theatrics. This workshop is open to participants of all artistic backgrounds and experiences. Through an indigenous lens and in the spirit of resistance, “A Poem for Remembering” aims to empower participants to rewrite their narratives. With an interdisciplinary approach, it engages all of the senses and expands on the experimental landscape.
Please bring a 35mm camera if you have one, as our supply is limited!
Muyassar Kurdi is a Palestinian-American New York City-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound art, extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, painting, analog photography, and film. Her practice honors the futuristic and ancient through meditative movements and sonic sound explorations. Centered on embodiment with a non-linear approach rooted in improvisation, she explores memory, displacement, and the body in relation to nature.
Kurdi received the American Composer Forum Create 2024, Brooklyn Arts Fund 2024, and was a finalist in the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship for Combined Disciplines 2023. She was awarded a Roulette Intermedium 2020 commission and 2022 artist residency with support from Jerome Foundation, and is also a recipient of the Queens Fund New Works Grant, NYFA City Artist Corps grant, and Puffin Foundation grant. Recent residencies include Harvestworks and The Watermill Center with OPERA ensemble. Love is Blue, Kurdi’s solo interdisciplinary exhibition, opened in the Fall of 2023 at LaMaMa Gallery in NYC.
Performance highlights include Poetry Project, Roulette Intermedium, Center For Performance Research, Lincoln Center, The Rubin Museum of Art, Issue Project Room, Cafe OTO, Chicago Cultural Center, Center for Contemporary Art Laznia, Fridman Gallery, Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, and Judson Memorial Church as well as exhibitions and film screenings (solo and group works) at VIERTE WELT, Trieze Gallery, Knockdown Center, Queens Museum, Spectacle Theatre, and Anthology Film Archives. She taught workshops in movement and voice most notably in Portugal at Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, Bilgi University and Cultur in Istanbul Turkey as well as a MoMA PS1 in NYC.
