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Taqwa Bn. Ali born Sudan, 1997. Is an interdisciplinary artist based in The Netherlands.
In her work, she employs various media, such as painting, sculpture, and performative interventions, to engage with themes of translocation and integration through materialization.
Her research-based practice centers on understanding the symbolism of materials and their capacity to stitch gaps formed by trans-locational experiences, particularly within the diaspora space.
In 2023, Ali was awarded the Henrietta Hustinx prize for her research project ‘The liminal space’, concerned with tracing the Sudanese diaspora’s presence in Limburg through clay. As well as a national award of the Royal Prize for Modern Painting 2025, initiated by the Dutch king, for her Sudanese Hibiscus painting series, which explores themes of identity and material, and migration
Bob Boilen | March 9, 2022
It’s less a concert and more witnessing a master thoughtfully creating an atmosphere, a vibe. And for 13 short minutes, I feel seated in Abdullah Ibrahim’s home in Chiemgau, Germany, witnessing seven decades of experience slowly dripping from his fingers and touching my soul.
Abdullah Ibrahim, now 87, has witnessed the horrors of apartheid. He grew up in South Africa and composed what would become known as the “anti-apartheid anthem,” “Mannenberg.” Nelson Mandela called him “our Mozart.” He also successfully made music under the name Dollar Brand, and worked with jazz legends including Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Don Cherry and Archie Shepp. In 1968, he converted to Islam and changed his name from Dollar Brand; more recently, he became an NEA Jazz Master. In my 18 years directing All Things Considered, I’d often reach for his music to play between news stories to give the audience a chance to think and reflect. His music is like that; it’s mind-opening.
And here he is seated at his piano, his white hair luminous, his fingers delicate, while he reflects on the past and helps clarify the present. The music is from his newest album Solotude, a recording made to an empty concert hall in southeast Germany during the 2020 lockdown, which for me became a source of calm when it was released toward the end of 2021. To witness this Tiny Desk (home) concert, I suggest you take these next 13 minutes, turn off your distractions and discover the strength in delicate reflection from a gentle man who has some much to share.
SET LIST
“Blue Bolero”
“Signal On The Hill”
“Once Upon A Midnight”
MUSICIANS
Abdullah Ibrahim: piano
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A Page of Madness (1926) a/k/a 狂った一頁, Kurutta Ichipeiji
A 1926 Japanese Black & White silent film produced & directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, written by Yasunari Kawabata, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Minoru Inuzuka and Banko Sawada, cinematography by Kōhei Sugiyama and Eiji Tsuburaya, starring Masao Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Hiroshi Nemoto, Misao Seki, Minoru Takase, Eiko Minami, Kyosuke Takamatsu, Tetsu Tsuboi, and Shintarō Takiguchi.
Lost for forty-five years until being rediscovered by its director in rice cans, in his storehouse in 1971, The film is the creation of a group of Japanese avant-garde artists, known as Shinkankakuha (lit. "School of new perceptions" (or sensations)) and is considered the first film of a stillborn "neo-sensationist" current, but shows influences of German expressionist cinema. It abounds with flashbacks, quick cuts, fast camera movements, optical inventions and symbolism. It is one of the early films directed by Kinugasa as well as one of Eiji Tsuburaya's early film works, the latter credited as assistant cinematographer.
Yasunari Kawabata, who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, was credited on the film with the original story. He is often cited as the film's screenwriter, and a version of the scenario is printed in his complete works, but the scenario is now considered a collaboration between him, Kinugasa, Banko Sawada, and Minoru Inuzuka.
The film was shot in one month, and so underfunded, that the stars (some big names), had to assist in painting the sets, as well as making the props and pushing them. Lacking money for accommodations for actors, they slept on the set or in the front office. The director had only eight small lights to work with, so he had the walls of his small studio painted in a silver color, to make them reflect additional illumination.
When this film was made, most Japanese cinemas would show only domestic films, while others would show only foreign films. But this was shown in cinemas specializing in foreign films. It was a big hit with the critics who proclaimed it a masterpiece, but not so much with the audience. The film "disappeared" from theaters after its short "preview screening" release.
Reception of the film since its rediscovery has been mostly positive, calling it "a vibrant and unsettling work of great emotional power", praises of the film include, "A Page of Madness remains one of the most radical and challenging Japanese movies ever seen", "a masterpiece", praising the film's "eerie, painted sets", calling it "a striking exploration of the nature of madness", "a balletic musing on our subconscious nightmares, examining dream states in a way that is both beautiful and highly disturbing", "both startling and mesmerizing".
It was later included at number 50 in Slant Magazine's "100 Best Horror Movies of All Time", citing the film's visuals and atmosphere as, "lingering long after the film ends.”
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"Einstein on the Beach" has become Glass' most famous work. The composer presented the first performance of the opera (in a concert hall), at his own expense, in the 1960s and 1970s. He earned a living as a taxi driver in New York. At that time, minimalism was not very popular with the general public. Glass described the first performances of his Philip Glass Ensemble like this: "Six people attended our first concert, two of them were friends and one was my mother."
After the premiere of "Einstein," everything changed. Glass was flooded with orders from leading opera houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala. Soon, he became the most-performed opera composer of the 20th century.
"Einstein on the Beach" is a legendary and iconic piece of innovative theater. It explores scientific research (the theory of relativity and nuclear weapon production), which was an unexpected theme for the theater, allowing the creators to experiment with creating a unique aesthetic experience full of visual and plastic effects. The piece bears little resemblance to traditional opera, as it was composed for The Philip Glass Ensemble without soloists, only a small chorus that sings meaningless syllables to the rhythm of the music. The story is read by a narrator, and the role of Einstein has no words - it was written for a violin. The main themes of the play are a train, a trial, and a spaceship floating above the Earth. Einstein on the Beach is the first opera in Philip Glass' Portraits trilogy, followed by Satyagraha and Akhenaten. These operas are dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and Akhenaten, respectively, and all three have no plot but rather a symbolic set of episodes that depict a portrait of each historical figure and their ideas that radically changed the world around them.