Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme

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Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, still from "The Incidental Insurgents"

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across sound, image, text, installation, and performance. Their practice probes a contemporary landscape marked by seemingly perpetual crisis, shaped by a politics of desire and disaster. 

Together they have been developing a body of work that questions this suspension of the present, searching for ways in which a different imaginary and language can emerge—one that is not bound within colonial/capitalist narratives and discourses. 

In their projects, they find themselves excavating, activating, and inventing incidental narratives, figures, gestures, and sites as material for re-imagining the possibilities of the present. Often reflecting on ideas of non-linearity in the form of returns, amnesia, and deja vu, they unfold slippages between actuality and projection (fiction, myth, wish)—what is and what could be. 

Largely, Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s approach has been one of sampling, drawing on materials both existing and self-authored. They take sound, image, text, and objects, recasting them into new ‘scripts’. The result is a practice that investigates the political, visceral, and material possibilities of sound, image, text, and site, taking on the form of multi-media installations and live sound/image performances.
 
Their works and writings has been featured in publications such as Frieze, Art in America, and Moving Image (edited by Omar Kholeif).

Persisting Realities: CTM 2019 Exhibition Opening

Kunstraum, Fri 25.01.2019, 19:00

With a performance by Martin Tétreault & dieb13, and a DJ set from Perila.

Persisting Realities

Kunstraum, Sat 26.01.2019, 11:00

CTM 2019 Exhibition

Persisting Realities

Kunstraum, Sun 27.01.2019, 11:00

CTM 2019 Exhibition

Persisting Realities

Kunstraum, Mon 28.01.2019, 11:00

CTM 2019 Exhibition

Persisting Realities

Kunstraum, Tue 29.01.2019, 11:00

CTM 2019 Exhibition

Persisting Realities

Kunstraum, Wed 30.01.2019, 11:00

CTM 2019 Exhibition

Persisting Realities

Kunstraum, Thu 31.01.2019, 11:00

CTM 2019 Exhibition

Persisting Realities

Kunstraum, Fri 01.02.2019, 11:00

CTM 2019 Exhibition

Persisting Realities

Kunstraum, Sat 02.02.2019, 11:00

CTM 2019 Exhibition

Persisting Realities

Kunstraum, Sun 03.02.2019, 11:00

CTM 2019 Exhibition