In this very special year, SAVVY Contemporary continues to honour Halim El-Dabh by thinking, listening, playing, singing, dancing and summoning the voices of vitality as he has been doing for decades in his sonic endeavours. Halim El-Dabh would have turned 100 years old this month and would have continued to carry the 4000 years of pyramids, making him 4100 years old.
To celebrate the scope, diversity and depth of the work of musician, Pan-Africanist, creative musicologist, seminal composer, and philosopher Halim El-Dabh, and to open our research, exhibition and performance project HERE HISTORY BEGAN. TRACING THE RE/VERBERATIONS OF HALIM EL-DABH we invoke voices, homages, imaginations and musical visions into a day-long INVOCATIONS of musical performances.
This first iteration of our INVOCATIONS series on El-Dabh brings together some of the most crucial elements in his own history: sound, movement, and performance. For this occasion, we have deeply and carefully listened to Halim El-Dabh’s work through the years and commissioned composers, musicians, dancers, visual artists to explore ways to relate to and conjure his spirit through their own artistic language. It includes re-enactments of El-Dabh’s musical compositions that become an inspiration to the artists invited. Together, we honour El-Dabh by sharing, underscoring and commenting on his practice, annotating his presence and absence in the complex history of the Western contemporary and electronic music canon.
Streamed via SAVVY’s Facebook & Youtube channel.
4100 Years Re/Verberations with Halim El-Dabh
With Halim El-Dabh, and Medhat Aldaabal, Lois Alexander, Jessie Cox with Wu Wei and Nicola Hein, Ali Demirel, Jessica Ekomane, Mena Mark Hanna, Ali Hasan, Sofia Jernberg, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas, Lorenzo Sandoval and Ute Wassermann.
20.3.2021 | Starts 16:00 CET
Online via SAVVY Contemporary | Reinickendorfer Straße 17 in 13347 Berlin/Wedding
Program/Timetable via savvy-contemporary.com | Facebook
This project has been kindly supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues, the Goethe Institut and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
