Audience feedback from June WIP:
“Not wanting to make a fool out of myself I focused hard on the instructions given and followed them accordingly. It was only after when I reflected on the experience, I realised that feeling of discomfort and not wanting to draw unwanted attention to myself made me more malleable and susceptible to following orders. Perhaps an insight into one of the ways in which oppressive forces function - by creating a sense of discomfort and unease people become more impressionable by ideology and order.”
“The performance gave me a deeper appreciation for the power and importance [of art] in resistance to colonial oppression and erasure of culture”
“Powerful, grounding, educational, poignant, unapologetic”
My previous work:
Crossing to the Realm of Manifestation
A video essay based on a site-specific theory performance.
Baba Dearest,
Did you know Moses designated Joshua, a successor, to lead his tribe across to liberation? Have you heard? He did not cross the Jordan River to the promised land.
In the heart of Berlin, I stand by the Children’s Transport Monument,
where whispers of history unfold,
a tale etched in iron that is untold.
Vegetal Mythologies: A Lecture Performance
35 guests, 5 course dinner | video installation | Berlin, July 2023 | in collaboration with chef Naya de Souza & Febrayer e.V
Presented A 10-minute video essay based on a site-specific theory performance, exploring different ways of knowing and theorizing reality amidst a "plausible genocide." The performance features a scientifically researched poem and concludes with an ablution ceremony.
Dialectics of Erasure Supporting Document
Mudar Al-Khufash is an interdisciplinary cultural studies and art practitioner. He is the founder and publisher of awāhm, an annual print journal on critical discourse. Mudar frames his artistic practice as an academic discipline, adopting the pedagogical format in artistic output, such as the lecture performance as an aesthetic form. As a politically invested artist, he utilizes it as a potent platform for activism and critical pedagogy. Mudar’s performances are multimedial, including participatory elements. He is currently based in London.
Trailer from the work in progress of Dialectics of Erasure in June 2025 in London - outdoor
