Kuwaiti DJ, producer, and artist Fatima Al Qadiri is somewhat of an enigmatic figure at the merging point between electronic music, fine arts, and political theory. Bending and fusing different genres of music, she has released a handful of largely instrumental albums that often imply dystopian narratives.
It is music that draws not only from an eclectic range of contrasting influences, but from a layered personal background: Born in Senegal, Fatima Al Qadiri grew up in Kuwait, but was exposed to club culture during frequent stays in London and studies in the USA. In New York she soon found her own place within the art and music scenes, working with the likes of Telfar, Dis Magazine, or Hood by Air, and co-founding the multidisciplinary artist collective GCC.
With mono.kultur, Fatima Al Qadiri talked about the narratives within her music, the rhythm of history, and the soundtrack to burning oil fields.
Visually, the issue traces an arc from Fatima Al Qadiri’s youth to her current work. The main imagery comes from her series ‘Bored 1997’, for which, at 16, she took photographs of her younger sister Monira dressing up in their father’s clothes. The series is published here for the first time in print, interspersed with stills from a current video work on gender reversal and Kuwaiti rituals, inserted as static stickers.
New
Paperback zine
40 pages
20cm x 15 cm