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Salt-Kissed: Of the Vessels that Sailed the Red Sea
Submerged Tales
Hayy Jameel, Jeddah
23 – 24 October, 2024
Submerged Tales is a series of online and in-person programmes accompanying the ongoing exhibition Salt-Kissed: Of the Vessels that have Sailed the Red Sea at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah. These programmes explore the hidden, unheard, and unspoken histories and processes of the Red Sea region. Through artist discussions, screenings, and workshops, the programs revisit the exhibition’s subthemes, framing the Red Sea as a site of cultural and historical difference. Day 1 talks and screenings take place online, day 2 workshops take place on-site at Hayy Jameel.
Registration is required, please find programme details and RSVP links to the individual programmes below:
Day 1 – October 23, 2024 – Online
On the margins of Salt-Kissed
Speakers: Ahmed Alaqra and Abed Shabane
5pm (GMT +3:00)
Online
Curators of ‘Salt-Kissed’, Ahmed Alaqra and Abdulrahman Abed Shabane, open a dialogue on the peripheral aspects of the exhibition—highlighting subthemes that, while not prominently featured, are still present in the show. These discussions expand the exhibition’s narrative and the history of the Red Sea beyond the displayed artworks, offering insight into Ahmed and Abed’s methodological approach to curating the exhibition.
Ruba Al-Sweel: First Phone
Speakers: Ahmed Alaqra and Ruba Al-Sweel
6pm (GMT +3:00)
Online
Exhibited artist Ruba Al-Sweel’s work explores the realities of everyday life told from the vantage point of screen space and platform algorithms. Join us for an online screening of Ruba’s recent video-essays FIRST PHONE, followed by a talk with curator Ahmed Alaqra
[Please log into both discussions via this zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89183450788]
Day 2 – October 24, 2024 – In-person
Submerged Sonics
Listening session with Ahmed Alaqra
3pm
Hayy Arts, Gallery 2
Submerged Sonics is a listening session within the ‘Salt-Kissed’ exhibition space, featuring field recordings from various locations around Jeddah. It is designed to create new connections with the city and spark fresh dialogues with the artworks in ‘Salt-Kissed’. Inspired by FREQ_WAVE: MIXER #1: NORTH SEA TO RED SEA (2020), curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff, this session uses sound frequencies to capture the subtle, hidden exchanges between Jeddah and the sea, offering a unique auditory exploration of the city’s relationship with its surrounding waters.
Watery Archives
Workshop with Huda Tayob
6pm
Project Space, Hayy Jameel
Watery Archives by exhibited artist Huda Tayob reframes the ocean and its coasts as sites of spatial and temporal continuity through the lens of colonial film archives. In a workshop with the artist, participants will build on Mahmoud Darwish’s poem Memory for Forgetfulness to rethink archival practices as acts of labor, care, and resistance. Participants are invited to engage with their own personal archival fragments of the Red Sea, to use them as prompts for redrawing and remapping histories of the Red Sea.
The programme invites participants to bring a personal belonging that will serve as a talisman—an object to aid in the process of restitching and reinterpreting colonial archives.
