Hip Hop Spa by FATIMA AL QADIRI
Video: KAMAU PATTON

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Vatican Vibes by FATIMA AL QADIRI
Video: TABOR ROBAK

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Corpcore by FATIMA AL QADIRI
Video: RYAN TRECARTIN and RHETT LARUE
Editing: NICK SCHOLL for DIS Magazine

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FATIMA AL QADIRI is a New York-based Kuwaiti visual artist and composer who has recently released a record called Genre-Specfic Xperience compiling five tracks that reinterpret five sub-genres of contemporary dance music: It’s essentially a genreless record, and it has to do with the idea that record labels nowadays like to curate a sound. I just feel like that’s such a funny thing to do, and so I wanted to make tracks that explore the idea of what it is for music to be part of a system of sound, and why record labels curate that sounds. Literally the word is curate, because I feel like there’s a similarity between the music industry and the art world that needs to be explored.

On the occasion, she hosted an album release party and panel discussion for her EP Genre-Specific Xperience in October at the New Museum where the five tracks and videos on the record (she collaborated with six artists to create original music videos – these are KAMAU PATTON, TABOR ROBAK, THUNDER HORSE, SOPHIE AL-MARIA , RYAN TRECARTIN and RHETT LARUE – that reinterprets the visual language of the musical genre) have been premiered.

Stunning!

For more informations about her genre-specific xperience EP and her work, visit her website!