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The last time I posted something here that wasn’t a collab was 2023…

Two weeks ago, I was part of @musicgalleryto’s What Is fest as a researcher. My project was about resources about noncompliance—or as I called it, “Ripples of sound and liberation.”

I wrote a very short essay (?) and compiled a bunch of threads. It’s on my bio, go see before I archive this post 🦋

The last time I posted something here that wasn’t a collab was 2023…

Two weeks ago, I was part of @musicgalleryto’s What Is fest as a researcher. My project was about resources about noncompliance—or as I called it, “Ripples of sound and liberation.”

I wrote a very short essay (?) and compiled a bunch of threads. It’s on my bio, go see before I archive this post 🦋

The last time I posted something here that wasn’t a collab was 2023…

Two weeks ago, I was part of @musicgalleryto’s What Is fest as a researcher. My project was about resources about noncompliance—or as I called it, “Ripples of sound and liberation.”

I wrote a very short essay (?) and compiled a bunch of threads. It’s on my bio, go see before I archive this post 🦋

MAY 8 / Night 3 /No memories available (PERFORMANCE)

For our third night of What Is: noncompliance, we call our bodies to the front. This night of performance subverts power and authority over our form and is a reminder of everything we are and are capable of.

Aliyah Aziz, joined by her workshop partners, opens the night with a musical piece dedicated to unraveling tape loops that bring memory back to tangibility. Following Aliyah is Qiujiang Levi Lu who uses their own electroacoustic systems to play and extend the body into a transgressive and transhumanist locus; they cultivate discovery and awareness in the queerness, viscerality, indecency and misconduct of our bodies.

Artist Husna Farooqui compiles a resource list centred around noncompliance in music to accompany the performances of the night.

Info + tickets at ticket link in bio 🔗

MAY 8 / Night 3 /No memories available (PERFORMANCE)

For our third night of What Is: noncompliance, we call our bodies to the front. This night of performance subverts power and authority over our form and is a reminder of everything we are and are capable of.

Aliyah Aziz, joined by her workshop partners, opens the night with a musical piece dedicated to unraveling tape loops that bring memory back to tangibility. Following Aliyah is Qiujiang Levi Lu who uses their own electroacoustic systems to play and extend the body into a transgressive and transhumanist locus; they cultivate discovery and awareness in the queerness, viscerality, indecency and misconduct of our bodies.

Artist Husna Farooqui compiles a resource list centred around noncompliance in music to accompany the performances of the night.

Info + tickets at ticket link in bio 🔗

MAY 8 / Night 3 /No memories available (PERFORMANCE)

For our third night of What Is: noncompliance, we call our bodies to the front. This night of performance subverts power and authority over our form and is a reminder of everything we are and are capable of.

Aliyah Aziz, joined by her workshop partners, opens the night with a musical piece dedicated to unraveling tape loops that bring memory back to tangibility. Following Aliyah is Qiujiang Levi Lu who uses their own electroacoustic systems to play and extend the body into a transgressive and transhumanist locus; they cultivate discovery and awareness in the queerness, viscerality, indecency and misconduct of our bodies.

Artist Husna Farooqui compiles a resource list centred around noncompliance in music to accompany the performances of the night.

Info + tickets at ticket link in bio 🔗

MAY 8 / Night 3 /No memories available (PERFORMANCE)

For our third night of What Is: noncompliance, we call our bodies to the front. This night of performance subverts power and authority over our form and is a reminder of everything we are and are capable of.

Aliyah Aziz, joined by her workshop partners, opens the night with a musical piece dedicated to unraveling tape loops that bring memory back to tangibility. Following Aliyah is Qiujiang Levi Lu who uses their own electroacoustic systems to play and extend the body into a transgressive and transhumanist locus; they cultivate discovery and awareness in the queerness, viscerality, indecency and misconduct of our bodies.

Artist Husna Farooqui compiles a resource list centred around noncompliance in music to accompany the performances of the night.

Info + tickets at ticket link in bio 🔗

REPRODUCE LISTENING ROOM

@xychaa
@wetsockx
@dameer.dk
@malfnktion

1. "you cannot divide the number of days in a year (365.24) by 29.5 and get an even amount of months out"
2. "the moon's orbital sidereal period is 27.3 days while the phases complete a cycle once every 29.5 days"
3. this is our first attempt at starting a monthly event series in toronto i have no idea whats going on
4. there is water on the moon

Thursday January 22
8PM-??

@unit2communityspace
163 Sterling Road
Toronto, Canada

PWYC $10-20 | Donor Pass available at the door | Nutrition $10/unit

Original Design by @lifafa
Edit by @ranaghose

#malfnktion #dj5rivers #sssena #dameer @sabcofest #reproducedrones #reproducetoronto #reproducelisteningroom #reproduceartists

Esssena is the means to and for creating SONIC ISLANDS. Following traces through field recording and live wave-like resonance: time expands and the dual reverberations of an island experienced and imagined finally cave in. This island is not lost, but will not be found anywhere, except for in the present straining to hear between.
@xychaa
🔗 tix in bio

Esssena is the means to and for creating SONIC ISLANDS. Following traces through field recording and live wave-like resonance: time expands and the dual reverberations of an island experienced and imagined finally cave in. This island is not lost, but will not be found anywhere, except for in the present straining to hear between.
@xychaa
🔗 tix in bio

Announcing the release of ‘Churning of the Ocean’ by Husna, out on Secret Contact today!

Transformed from an a/v installation, listen to the audiovisual release at the link in bio. 🔗

‘Churning of the Ocean’ by Husna,
Coming out on Secret Contact on May 15th.

Secret Contact is proud to present ‘Churning of the Ocean’, an upcoming debut project by Husna.

As a Toronto-based artist with ties and placeholders in South and South East Asia, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Middle East, Husna’s sonic and visual work similarly reflects the invisible and innumerable lines, breaths, and crossings between worlds.

Initially conceived as an a/v installation in the spring of 2024, ‘Churning of the Ocean’ will be released as a visual single/sonic film/piece of memory.

Mastering by Koohyar Habibi
Cover art by Paria Forouzesh and Husna

Secret Contact is proud to present ‘Churning of the Ocean’, an upcoming debut project by Husna.

As a Toronto-based artist with ties and placeholders in South and South East Asia, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Middle East, Husna’s sonic and visual work similarly reflects the invisible and innumerable lines, breaths, and crossings between worlds.

Initially conceived as an a/v installation in the spring of 2024, ‘Churning of the Ocean’ will be released as a visual single/sonic film/piece of memory.

Mastering by Koohyar Habibi
Cover art by Paria Forouzesh and Husna

Featured Artist for UKAI Open Studio: Horror and Metaphors in AI

Come see what two streams of artistic activity exploring the weird edges of AI have been up to.

Ten installations, DJ sets, and performances over the course of the day and evening.

When: January 17, 2025: 3 pm to 12 am
Where: The Bridge (379 Adelaide St. W, 4F, Toronto, ON)
How much: PWYW or free, but register for entry at the link in bio

HUSNA FAROOQUI @xychaa
Knife, Fire (2025)
Video Installation and Audio

BIO

Based in Toronto, Husna works with sound, text, visuals, installations, food, excavated material, and so on. She is drawn to the non-things—fragments, shadows, reflections, suggestions—or the empty, discarded, and abandoned without place or order.

Knife, Fire

Over the course of this residency, I found myself increasingly drawn to body horror. Where traditional horror gazes outward, body horror turns the threats of the unknowable and uncontrollable to the inlands: this familiar site of our most direct, intimate knowing and control, our very body, itself harboring threats to its own order.

Body horror is the first horror, as the body is the primary site of consciousness. And it is the last horror, after counting all external dangers and realizing that one’s body is inseparable from that external world. Since we cannot (yet?) untangle the biological from psychological, we are left to face a horror that is as persistent as we are.

I considered my fears, and one day, I thought of fire. Burning and maiming oneself felt more tangible and immediate: hovering possibilities that yes, could really happen to me, as with all physical bodies. This project began as an exploration of that personal horror, and meanwhile I wondered about the limits and reign of autonomy.

Thanks to @canada.council @uoft @aimetaphorsworkshop @coachhousebooks @interaccessto

Featured Artist for UKAI Open Studio: Horror and Metaphors in AI

Come see what two streams of artistic activity exploring the weird edges of AI have been up to.

Ten installations, DJ sets, and performances over the course of the day and evening.

When: January 17, 2025: 3 pm to 12 am
Where: The Bridge (379 Adelaide St. W, 4F, Toronto, ON)
How much: PWYW or free, but register for entry at the link in bio

HUSNA FAROOQUI @xychaa
Knife, Fire (2025)
Video Installation and Audio

BIO

Based in Toronto, Husna works with sound, text, visuals, installations, food, excavated material, and so on. She is drawn to the non-things—fragments, shadows, reflections, suggestions—or the empty, discarded, and abandoned without place or order.

Knife, Fire

Over the course of this residency, I found myself increasingly drawn to body horror. Where traditional horror gazes outward, body horror turns the threats of the unknowable and uncontrollable to the inlands: this familiar site of our most direct, intimate knowing and control, our very body, itself harboring threats to its own order.

Body horror is the first horror, as the body is the primary site of consciousness. And it is the last horror, after counting all external dangers and realizing that one’s body is inseparable from that external world. Since we cannot (yet?) untangle the biological from psychological, we are left to face a horror that is as persistent as we are.

I considered my fears, and one day, I thought of fire. Burning and maiming oneself felt more tangible and immediate: hovering possibilities that yes, could really happen to me, as with all physical bodies. This project began as an exploration of that personal horror, and meanwhile I wondered about the limits and reign of autonomy.

Thanks to @canada.council @uoft @aimetaphorsworkshop @coachhousebooks @interaccessto

Featured Artist for UKAI Open Studio: Horror and Metaphors in AI

Come see what two streams of artistic activity exploring the weird edges of AI have been up to.

Ten installations, DJ sets, and performances over the course of the day and evening.

When: January 17, 2025: 3 pm to 12 am
Where: The Bridge (379 Adelaide St. W, 4F, Toronto, ON)
How much: PWYW or free, but register for entry at the link in bio

HUSNA FAROOQUI @xychaa
Knife, Fire (2025)
Video Installation and Audio

BIO

Based in Toronto, Husna works with sound, text, visuals, installations, food, excavated material, and so on. She is drawn to the non-things—fragments, shadows, reflections, suggestions—or the empty, discarded, and abandoned without place or order.

Knife, Fire

Over the course of this residency, I found myself increasingly drawn to body horror. Where traditional horror gazes outward, body horror turns the threats of the unknowable and uncontrollable to the inlands: this familiar site of our most direct, intimate knowing and control, our very body, itself harboring threats to its own order.

Body horror is the first horror, as the body is the primary site of consciousness. And it is the last horror, after counting all external dangers and realizing that one’s body is inseparable from that external world. Since we cannot (yet?) untangle the biological from psychological, we are left to face a horror that is as persistent as we are.

I considered my fears, and one day, I thought of fire. Burning and maiming oneself felt more tangible and immediate: hovering possibilities that yes, could really happen to me, as with all physical bodies. This project began as an exploration of that personal horror, and meanwhile I wondered about the limits and reign of autonomy.

Thanks to @canada.council @uoft @aimetaphorsworkshop @coachhousebooks @interaccessto

Featured Artist for UKAI Open Studio: Horror and Metaphors in AI

Come see what two streams of artistic activity exploring the weird edges of AI have been up to.

Ten installations, DJ sets, and performances over the course of the day and evening.

When: January 17, 2025: 3 pm to 12 am
Where: The Bridge (379 Adelaide St. W, 4F, Toronto, ON)
How much: PWYW or free, but register for entry at the link in bio

HUSNA FAROOQUI @xychaa
Knife, Fire (2025)
Video Installation and Audio

BIO

Based in Toronto, Husna works with sound, text, visuals, installations, food, excavated material, and so on. She is drawn to the non-things—fragments, shadows, reflections, suggestions—or the empty, discarded, and abandoned without place or order.

Knife, Fire

Over the course of this residency, I found myself increasingly drawn to body horror. Where traditional horror gazes outward, body horror turns the threats of the unknowable and uncontrollable to the inlands: this familiar site of our most direct, intimate knowing and control, our very body, itself harboring threats to its own order.

Body horror is the first horror, as the body is the primary site of consciousness. And it is the last horror, after counting all external dangers and realizing that one’s body is inseparable from that external world. Since we cannot (yet?) untangle the biological from psychological, we are left to face a horror that is as persistent as we are.

I considered my fears, and one day, I thought of fire. Burning and maiming oneself felt more tangible and immediate: hovering possibilities that yes, could really happen to me, as with all physical bodies. This project began as an exploration of that personal horror, and meanwhile I wondered about the limits and reign of autonomy.

Thanks to @canada.council @uoft @aimetaphorsworkshop @coachhousebooks @interaccessto

The shipwreck came and swept. We stare at the pacific garbage patch lovingly, with hungry disgusted eyes. A night of sculptural and performative food art, join us for The Feast.

As part of this year’s Carnival by @ukaiprojects, we feast at Spadinababy for our second instalment on Friday, October 25th at 7 pm. Limited tickets available soon!

Though The Feast is not a full dinner plate party, Feast-goers can expect a food art performance and will be able to try the food. Please be aware that the food may contain common allergens such as milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean, and sesame.

🍽️🎣🗑️⛴️🌊

Shakiba is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist specializing in sculpture, installation, video, and sound art, with a strong foundation in drawing. @demi6odsalvia

Johan Seytoun is a sound-assembler and olfactory artist based in Montreal. @johan.seytoun

Husna is based in Toronto and works with sound, text, visuals, installations, food, excavated material, and so on. She is drawn to the non-things—fragments, shadows, reflections, suggestions—or the empty, discarded, and abandoned without place or order. @xychaa

Shima is a middle eastern artist based in Tkaronto. Their practice is often research based and ranges across food, poetry, video, noise, and performance arts, often centering community based values and impermanence. @timeisafascist

pura vida

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night stand by the bed

night stand by the bed

night stand by the bed