Music and video by Leyya Mona Tawil
Curated by Pythia’s Journals – Pythia’s Journals is an online, monomedia art festival text, radio, sound & visual art that offers different possibilities to think, act and sense ourselves into a future. The inauguration of the festival took place in May 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown. It is organized by Signe Vad and Tobias R. Kirstein.
Lime Rickey International
“Malayeen”
Duration 2:28 minutes
LEYYA MONA TAWIL [also known as Lime Rickey International] is an artist working with dance, sound and performance practices. Tawil is Syrian Palestinian American, engaged in the world as such. She has a 23-year record of performance scores that have been presented in 40+ cities throughout the US, Europe and the Arab world. Tawil was named the ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow for 2020 for her project “Nomadic Signals”. She was also a 2018 Saari Residence Fellow (Finland). Lime Rickey Internatonal’s Future Faith, commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and the KONE Foundation, was nominated for a 2019 Bessie Award in Music, Her work is supported by the California Arts Council, Pieter Performance Space, Gibney DIP Residency, and Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
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