{"uid":"JBSGSxMVoblLNdpx","type":"artist","tags":["performance"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"MAGNUNA means madwoman in Arabic (working title)","summary":"MAGNUNA is a choreographed performance for fifty female and male performers, dedicated to the ambiguous narratives of female madness in medieval Arabo-Islamic literature. It will attempt a feminist, Foucauldian historical analysis of Islamic madness and its contemporary reverberations.\n\nMy interest in movement and madness started out as a reaction to my experiences of constraint, as a woman in public. I understood movement and womanhood as intertwined in the effort to navigate and negotiate space, and understood madness in the European sense, as the internalization of social restriction, the necessary containment of one\u2019s symptoms, in the face of power and authority. \n\nMagnuna is the colloquial Egyptian form of the Arabic word \u2018Majnuna\u2019; the root of the word is \u201cJinn\u201d, demon. There is a long literary tradition in Islam that connects madness with poetry and mysticism: the notion that the mad have access to some hidden truth. \n\nMAGNUNA moves towards a new synthesis of madness and holiness. It recuperates and rewrites the symptoms of holy madness in first person narratives, imagining new meanings and associations for these poses and gestures. In these choreographies, involuntary movements are transformed into deliberate, assertive gestures. Using the affective atmosphere of madness\u2014its tropes of inappropriate affect\u2014the performance deconstructs and reappropriates the movements of the madwoman\u2019s body for the crafting and potentiation of a semantics of resistance.","space":"MAGNUNA is a choreographed performance for fifty performers, based on the visualisations and descriptions of madwomen in medieval Arabo-Islamic literature. It will take place in an open public space, in an arrangement that would allow the observers to move between the performers if they wish. The performers are standing one meter apart on all sides, an open area of approximately 15 x 10 meters is required. MAGNUNA\u2019s only other requirements are the voices and bodies of the performers.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":5,"names":"doa","surname":"aly","email":"doaaly@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"A12933517","address":"11 Mohamed Kamal Eddine Hassanein","city":"Cairo","nacionality":"Egypt","country_id":"68","birthdate":"1976-06-10T21:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1976-06-10T21:00:00.000Z","telephone":"00201005113969","web":"http:\/\/gypsumgallery.com\/works-doa-aly"}