 | “Makan” (Arabic for place) is the most recent creation from Palestinian musician, composer, singer and performer, Kamilia Jubran and marks a move towards a more rigorous minimalism. The performance consists of ten Arabic poems of her composition, performed on the Oud, which express the artist’s multi-layered and paradoxical experience with displacement. Since 2002, Jubran has relocated to Europe, traveling incessantly, and yet as the realm for her movement has grown wider, her private, inner realm, has narrowed. The complexities of being part of a diaspora, the forced displacement –directly or indirectly–, and the experience of “out-of-placeness” are salient motifs to Palestinian artistic expression, but Jubran’s new oeuvre brings a singular and compelling subjectivity to these themes. Her melody thus re-creates the space for new roots. |