Trisk Presents
Aminah Ibrahim

UNDER THE SUN RUG

MAY 19 & 20, 2022

$20 in advance / $25 at the door

Dirty, beat up lonesome apples.

The crazy crying out, moaning fruit of the jinn, gathered together in sacrifice to the smoke that disappears at dusk, tripped up. 
Farther down the pastel painted pipes in remembrance of every momentary lack of movement along the way. 
Missed out, missing those times to come upon the tattered hems that are only fleeing to actualize their piece of the whole.

This path is a transition unprepared, circumstances salty and crippled, where divination is dealt a rotten hand.

In the clouds full of prayers, while I stall the growth of poison, return my mind to the heavens.

Under the Sun Rug is a theatrical performance artwork grounded in creative collaboration. Rooted in the role of the Trickster in Native American and African American oral storytelling traditions, the performance centers AaaA, a mysterious being gifted with the power of incantation, playful mischief, and form-giving creation. They have been banished long ago into the earth under the sea for an innocent enough misdeed, but are now ready to offer a dance of shadow, light, and song as a somewhat remorseful token so they may make their journey back to civilization. This work is an embodied contemplation towards freedom and abstraction to build portals for new mythologies, using the supernatural as metaphor for resistance, to reveal the power of expression, and importance of community to protect the earth’s vital force.

Aminah Ibrahim a Black American, Kuwaiti, and Indonesian artist and creative researcher, raised in Kuwait and based in NYC.

They explore the body as spiritual instrument through somatics, Islamic practices, Austronesian culture, 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, an embodied contemplation towards freedom and abstraction to build portals for new mythologies, with custom garb and sound scores annotating this body language. Other works are developed into video artworks and multimedia installations, exploring the geographies of identity and diasporic self through media, investigating the struggle between an exposed surveillance and an abstracted self-censorship.

Developing their practice and attaching sensibilities of performance to sculpture, new sculptural works incorporate natural materials, found objects, clothing, chainmail, embroidery, and text.

Website: www.aminahibrahim.net
Instagram: @tendermountain