Tarik Barri
Hannah Elsisi presents Chromesthesia
In the realm of Dutch/Sudanese maverick Tarik Barri, sounds and images are inseparable, always intertwined. In his own words: “Both hearing and vision are entrances through which the outside world communicates to our consciousness. It’s not just the individual entrances by themselves that are important to me, it's the message, the logic and the feelings that can be conveyed through their combined use”. As such, Barri creates alternate realities which resemble our own in its natural integration of all of the senses, as is the case with the audiovisual design for Hannah Elsisi’s Chromesthesia.
British-Egyptian award-winning social and intellectual historian Hannah Elsisi presents Chromesthesia, a 13-hour durational performance. From Rio to Cairo, Miami to Kampala, Chromesthesia tracks Afro-diasporic rhythms and explores the history that undergirds Afro-descendant electronic music.
Photography by Lea Fabrikant