Mona El Husseini
A choreography of recorded sounds in response to thoughts thinking thoughts and string figures making sense of stories.
Keywords : choreography, thoughts, thinkings, strings
Mona El Husseini is an Egyptian-Canadian Contemporary Dance artist based in Montreal. She completed her professional dance education in Cairo, Egypt and studied International Business and Contemporary Dance at Concordia University. Mona is constantly pursuing opportunities that broaden her artistic diversity. In the creative process, she goes beyond the dance and traces the thread that connects the various fields of art that she practices. In un-layering questions of personal identity and heritage, Mona is interested in the place where the inner and outer meet, and the encounter between the personal and the collective.
The sympoiesis of an ambulatory reading circle
This ambulatory reading circle follows processual paths to induce a multitude of moments of sharing. The first meeting took place under the sign of walking, solo and in a group, listening activated by the soles of the feet, Haraway's words seeping into ears and the spatiotemporality of the Botanical Garden. The next audio rendezvous with each participant, connecting/ed to a moment of life and took place outdoors near rocks, bodies of water, seeds, insects, leafy ground, or wastelands to a moment and life, took place outdoors, in other places, near rocks, bodies of water, insects or wastelands. The one-take recordings are accompanied by more-than-human and sometimes human voices, that solicit active sounding of thought in motion, and the surprising force of listening from-with-in bodies and situations.
This project was realized in partnership with MÉDIANE - Chaire de recherche du Canada en arts, écotechnologies de pratique et changements climatiques (mediane.uqam.ca ; dir. Gisèle Trudel) and Ada X, with support of CRSH, FCI and FRQSC.
Ada X is a bilingual feminist artist-run centre engaged in exploration, creation, and critical reflection in media arts and digital culture.
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