 | Egyptian video artist Sherif el-Azma’s new work is a lecture-performance, presented in the conventional form of informational lectures, with published evidence from research, display of charts and visual aids, photographs and video footage. It aims to scan through fiction, sociology and psycho-geography. In contrast with the capital’s neighborhoods, these recently emerged urban developments seem to have sprouted from nothingness, they are without a past and free of the burden of history, but they are also culturally anemic and politically weightless. As such, they are almost neutral spaces, whose dwellers develop a particular subjectivity. El-Azma has demarkated himself in Cairo’s contemporary and conceptual artistic scene as singularly versatile and fiercely singular, and his new performance confirms the seat tributes. |