As Far As Isolation Goes (Online)
CREDITS & BIOS
Credits
Produced by Artsadmin
Song Conception: Basel Zaraa
Music Production: Peter Churchill
Vocals and Lyrics: Jazzar & Shamma Iqbal
Wall Writing: Steaz
Image: Basel Zaraa
Work originally commissioned by the Sick of the Fringe 2019. Online version commissioned by GIFT 2020.
About Tania El Khoury
Tania El Khoury is a live artist creating installations and performances focused on audience interactivity and concerned with the ethical and political potential of such encounters. She is a Distinguished Artist in Residence of Theater and Performance and Director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & The Arts at Bard College, New York. Her work has been presented in multiple languages across six continents. She was a 2019 Soros Art Fellow and the recipient of the Bessies Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award. Tania holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London. She is associated with Forest Fringe collective of artists in the UK and is a co-founder of Dictaphone Group in Lebanon, a research and performance collective aiming at questioning our relationship to the city and redefining its public space.
About Basel Zaraa
Basel Zaraa is a Birmingham-based Palestinian performer, musician, and stencil graffiti artist whose work explores how war, occupation, and displacement are experienced through the everyday struggles of his people. Since 2016 he has collaborated with Tania El Khoury on
As Far As My Fingertips Take Me and
As Far As Isolation Goes, two one-to-one installations that use painting, touch, and sound to connect audience members with the stories and struggles of refugees. As a musician and rapper, he has collaborated with a range of artists including Akala, Lowkey, and Katibeh Khamseh, and has toured the UK and internationally with PsycheDELIGHT’s Borderline. He is part of Alleyway Radical Theatre, which combines hip-hop with shadow theatre. Since the Covid outbreak, he has been performing a digital reworking of
As Far As Isolation Goes, and is currently working on Dear Laila, an immersive installation commissioned by Good Chance Theatre which recreates childhood memories through a miniature replica of his family home.