{"id":1139,"date":"2006-07-13T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mounirasolh.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:46:13","slug":"in-brown-longtime-thresholds-and-substrates-without-catalogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mounirasolh.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/13\/in-brown-longtime-thresholds-and-substrates-without-catalogues\/","title":{"rendered":"in brown, longtime thresholds and substrates without catalogues"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1139\" class=\"elementor elementor-1139\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fe00b8a elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fe00b8a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\"><div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-description\"><div class=\"field field-name-field-description field-type-text field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\"><div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-description\"><div class=\"field field-name-field-description field-type-text field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\"><div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-description\"><div class=\"field field-name-field-description field-type-text field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\"><div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-description\"><div class=\"field field-name-field-description field-type-text field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">sound piece, walnut wood carved mimbars, 2 suspended speakers, 2 spotlights, 2014<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\"><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a9cb684 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a9cb684\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The work is a sound piece that I recorded with my voice singing in various dialects and languages repeatedly parts of the very famous Egyptian song &#8220;Enta Omri&#8221; by Um Kaltoum. I deconstruct it, re-think its aura and transpose it into the present of the immigrating Arabic language(s), the Berber language and a selection of Arabic dialects where we hear for instance Dutch and French intruding intermittently the sentences.<\/p><p>I replaced an existing ancient mimbar at Dar Si Said in Marrakesh by two mimbars facing each other, as if absurdly reading or singing for one another. Their sizes are exactly half as big as the original ancient mimbar that is usually on display at Dar Si Said (currently housing the Museum of Moroccan Arts), in the room where my work was shown during the Biennial.\u00a0An artisan from Marrakesh has worked on constructing the new mimbars from walnut wood.<\/p><p>These mimbars become the stage where the song is resonating, thus inter-mixing critically religion and love, as well as religion singing and current Arabic dialects.\u00a0<\/p><p>I consider this work as an abstraction of an ongoing research on language. 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