The artist Bint Mbareh was invited to our Art Time Residency for performing artists at BUDA Kunstencentrum, followed by a show at NEXT Festival.
Bint Mbareh (Palestine, b. 1995) is curious about sovereignty over sonic space as a communal resource. Her most recent research was an exploration of how rain-summoning song and ritual in Palestine acted and may continue to act as a ritual of time-bending.
For the Art Time Residency, Bint Mbareh explored death as an omnipresent means of transcendence and as a challenge to stagnation. Is death always in the future? If we become less resistant to it, perhaps we can communally accept it as part of our present. Versions of ourselves die on a daily basis. By ritualizing death through serenading the archetypal death doula, the mushroom, Bint Mbareh plays with the time in between now and when we die, tempting it closer. The aim is to collapse this time by serenading her mushrooms and coaxing them into consuming the world.