Performative Screenings #35: Raed Yassin. Karaoke & Disco Tonight

29.05.2015 - 30.05.2015

school, Wien / Österreich

Friday May 29, 2015 , 7 pm
open also Saturday May 30, 12-3 pm

Where is father? Every night, a family gathers in front of the TV to raise the same question, hoping to catch a glimpse of him hiding in the glamorous world of the Egyptian film industry. They will not find him, but see him in dreams through images of stars. Raed Yassin, a Beirut-born artist and musician, is haunted by Middle Eastern pop culture from the 1960s up to today, with its stand-up comedy, belly dancing, and films. Three video works are going to be screened including his latest: Karaoke (2015), a meditation on the burning shame felt by a child in the face of artistic failure.... Yassin’s semi-fictitious, sad/funny stories are always about longing, embarrassment, and false hope, but equally about history’s deep unfairness towards the self-colonized periphery, unjustly represented as backwards and imitative.

[Quelle: Einladung]