Created by Aminah Ibrahim

Narrator
Sadie White

AaaA
Aminah Ibrahim

Mural
Althea James

Costume Design
Tonya Huynh

Text
Aminah Ibrahim in collaboration with John Wade

Soundscape
Sadie White

Aminah Ibrahim is a Black American, Kuwaiti, and Indonesian artist and arts administrator, raised in Kuwait and based in NYC.

They explore the body as spiritual instrument through somatic movement, Austronesian cultures, and the blues. Inspired by the barzakh, described in the Qur'an as the barrier between sweet and salty water, mortal realm and spirit world, improvisation and meditative repetition are used to explore movement, finding space in flesh. Performances are rituals of offering for transformation, with custom garb and sound scores annotating this body language, an embodied contemplation towards freedom and abstraction to build portals for new mythologies. Exploring the geographies of identity, other works are developed into video artworks and multimedia installations, investigating the struggle between an exposed surveillance and an abstracted self-censorship. New sculptural works-in-progress incorporate natural materials, found objects, clothing, chainmail, embroidery, and text.

Aminah has shown work at DUPLEX, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, Abrons Art Center, JACK, Magenta Plains, and Wellcome Collection, UK. They have received an MA in Sound Art from London College of Communication, and BS in Media Communications from Syracuse University.

Sadie White is a ​​musician, multidisciplinary artist, and filmmaker.
@sadiewh1te

Althea James is an artist, illustrator, painter, and arts educator, exploring ideas around gender, class, and city living through collaborative projects.
@theajames1

Tonya Huynh is a fashion stylist and gua sha practitioner, working with traditional medicine theories and the poetics of ‘wind’ through breath and flow. @slimybutts

Fujio Emura is an image-maker and art director. @fujioemura

John Wade is a reader and writer critically thinking about decolonization, fashion, architecture and spirituality. lambswool.substack.com

Conor Mulligan, Lighting Designer
Credits include: NEW YORK: The Giant Hoax, (Theatre Row), KonverjdansIII (The Mark O’Donnell Theater), Jumping Mouse (Museum of Jewish Heritage), BalletNEXT (NYLA), National Children’s Chorus (Carnegie Hall), Satellite Collective’s Echo & Narcissus 2018 (BAM Fisher), Adam Minus Josh, (Theatre Lab), Start From Hello A New Musical (Hudson Guild Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Smith Street Stages), Lambs For Slaughter, The Overcoat, The Master and Margarita, Lady With A Lap Dog, The Three Sisters, Crime and Punishment (The Russian Arts Theatre & Studio), The Phillie Trilogy, Do You Dream In Spanish, (Fresh Fruit Festival 2017), The Commuters (Calendar Boys Productions). REGIONAL: PIRIRA, Old Love New Love (Luna Stage, NJ), On Golden Pond (Bristol Riverside Theatre), This Is Our Youth (Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre, MA), E2, The 39 Steps, Sweeney Todd, All She Must Posses, The Other Place (REP Stage, MD), Columbinus, Fly By Night (1st Stage, VA), Manuel Vignoulle – M/Motions (Tulsa Performing Arts Center), The Effects Of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds [Winner of the Craig Noel award for Outstanding Lighting Design 2018], Fool For Love, True West (Cygnet Theatre, CA), Lesson 443 (MOXIE Theatre, CA), Thrill Me (Diversionary Theatre, CA). INTERNATIONAL: Cirio Collective: In the Mind, The Fourth Way, Parting Thoughts (Despertares Impulsa 2019; Guadalajara, MEX). Conor is a proud member of USA 829. More at www.conormulliganld.com

Pamela Dols, Sound Technician
Pamela Dols is a professional audio engineer with five years of experience in live production. She is certified in Sound Recording Technology, and has used her credentials to build her career from the ground up. She began with unpaid internships at small recording studios and is now a choice engineer for events all around the tri-state area. Pamela has worked a wide range of events. From local theaters to network-sponsored events, she is no stranger to adaptability. Music and art has been center stage for all of Pamela’s life. She continues to take strides in her career, and aspires to be a rolemodel for fellow queer POC women in a caucasian male-dominated trade. On her off days you’ll find Pamela playing video games, hiking, visiting museums, and going to concerts.
@dampols

Special thanks to Rachel Mckinstry, Hannah Wendel, and Conor Mulligan for all the support, and to Dominique and Grant Guillory for the love.

We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.