"I believe in djinns," says Fatima Al Qadiri. "I believe in evil spirits that haunt the earth. I don't smell or see them, but I feel them especially in Kuwait: it's one of the most haunted places on earth. Even with all the concrete and highways and esplanades. It's very creepy. We have Greek ruins in Kuwait. Alexander the Great built sacrificial temples on one of our islands. I always feel some kind of dread there. Even inside my house. It takes me hours to get to sleep. And music is a kind of ghost too: it's about conjuring memories, apparitions, something that reminds you of your past."
It's odd to be talking about ghosts and revenants with Al Qadiri. After all, we're sitting inside PS1, MoMA's contemporary art hub in Long Island City, New York, that's meant to be an incubator for newness. And Al Qadiri, born in Senegal in 1981, is herself often seen as an icon of newness: she makes and curates conceptually inclined, drily satiric art; she's written for influential art and fashion journals Bidoun, Frieze and DIS; she's one of a growing band of producers among them Holly Herndon, Laurel Halo, Maria Minerva who have made waves in what often seems like the Boys Own world of international electronica.
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by Sukhdev Sandhu via Electronic music | The Guardian
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