On the occasion of Eliyah Mesayer's participation in Art Hub Residency this fall, we invite you to Illiyeen presents.

Illiyeen presents is a performance program curated by founder of Illiyeen, artist Eliyah Mesayer. Eliyah Mesayer’s state for the stateless is not rooted in a specific place or geographic site, but in human encounters and alchemical connections.

So please join us on 18 January at 7.00 PM for an evening with performances by invited artists who will interpret and contribute to the spirit and the notion of the nation Illiyeen.

The event is the first of many to finally one day construct an Illiyeen Album of soundscapes.

PLEASE NOTE, THERE’S A DRESSCODE: Black clothes and shoes.

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Program of the evening:

19.00 The doors will open

19.30 - 20.00 Angel Wei

20.15 - 20.35 Zahna Siham Benamor

21.00 - 21.30 CCsquele x Yung Smash OTP

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The event is free to take part in, but please take out a ticket via Billetto here.

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ABOUT ELIYAH MESAYER
Artist Eliyah Mesayer (b.1987) graduated from the Jutland Art Academy in 2020. While working within several expressions, Eliyah Mesayer’s practice is primarily expressed through an alchemical tradition, especially that found in the treatises of Jabir ibn Hayyan (721-815), (Geber) – The Father of Chemistry. Inspired by Gebers multitude of processes for investigating and exposing the principles of it’s subjects, one outlet is Mesayer’s alchemical works on paper, where she create visual interferences by combining chemical processes with light. However, her form of alchemy isn’t limited to these formats, but also extends itself into poetry, installation, and performative works.

A focal point for all of these is the fictional state Illiyeen, a state for the stateless, which both engages her own heritage, but also seeks a form of alchemical change by artistically balancing itself on the dynamic threshold between reality and fiction as well as fact and imagination. Illiyeen is a non-specific geographical location. It is a state of nowhere and a nation of everywhere. It is a state of being. Illiyeen is a conceptual manifestation emanating from poems, installations, songs, compositions, performances, and exhibitions, it is about history, past and present. A liminal state between the political and the poetics.