Exhibition: Bugging Out and Cuttin’ the Fool are Holy Ghost Adjacent

An exhibition centred on three compositions adopting Eiliyas’s methods of creating sonic improvisations using feedback, reactions and interactions with various media. While the primary medium is sound and will refer mostly to feedback-oriented methods of development, exploration and experimentation - the connection will also pertain to his research topic “The Blues in Technology from the Perspective of Sonic Culture“, using James Baldwin’s sense of the blues, which explores transmissions of the self and states of consciousness/unconsciousness through the inventions we create, and how these tools can 'extend and amputate human faculty' (McLuhan). The exhibition, in turn, performs itself as it collages different technologies and sounds that compose and decompose throughout the space.

Curators Statement

Imagine a language so open it holds the complexity of everything - feedback is the invisible resonance between things, both living and dead. I came to meet Eiliyas through a series of synchronicities. These intangible sequences of chance,

fatalist occurrence or feedback, that lead you to meet people that mirror your questions about life, are the very experiences that keep me pursuing a role in the arts. Eiliyas’ artistic practice aligns with my constant investigations on what exactly it is about listening that lingers at the core fabric of our being. He eloquently renders the intangibility of material and immaterial language which exists at the intersection between spirituality and sound. Demonstrating the adjacencies between technology, culture, being and listening, Buggin' Out and Cuttin' the Fool are Holy Ghost Adjacent will lay the foundations for you to notice and reflect on the synchronicities that keep us in daydream

- Riah Naief