Mohamed Abdelkarim (Minya, 1983) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working across performance, sonic practices, writing, and film. His practices are committed to performativity, employing and reflecting on acts of narrating, singing, detecting, doing, composing, dramaturging, fictioning, and speculating.
In Abdelkarim’s performative works, the overwritten script moves through speculation, mythofiction, and eschatology, to the textures of rapture and defeat. His endeavors contemplate a world that might be undone and remade. His current umbrella project focuses on reconstructing reality, titled (Fiction as a reality we missed)
His performances have been included in Guild Master of Cabaret Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich, 2016; Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival, Bulgaria, 2016; Photo Cairo 6th, Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), Egypt, 2017; Live Works Performance Act Award Vol. 5, 37° Edizione Drodesera, Trento, Italy, 2017; At the Crossroads of Different Pasts, Presents and Futures, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2018; Interazioni Festival, Rome, Italy, 2022; and Festival Internazionale della Performance, Performative 04, at MAXXI L'Aquila, 2024. As part of his performative practice, he established "Live Praxes", a performance encounter that includes workshops, seminars, and performance nights.
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In Abdelkarim’s performative works, the overwritten script moves through speculation, mythofiction, and eschatology, to the textures of rapture and defeat. His endeavors contemplate a world that might be undone and remade. His current umbrella project focuses on reconstructing reality, titled (Fiction as a reality we missed)
His performances have been included in Guild Master of Cabaret Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich, 2016; Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival, Bulgaria, 2016; Photo Cairo 6th, Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), Egypt, 2017; Live Works Performance Act Award Vol. 5, 37° Edizione Drodesera, Trento, Italy, 2017; At the Crossroads of Different Pasts, Presents and Futures, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2018; Interazioni Festival, Rome, Italy, 2022; and Festival Internazionale della Performance, Performative 04, at MAXXI L'Aquila, 2024. As part of his performative practice, he established "Live Praxes", a performance encounter that includes workshops, seminars, and performance nights.
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