Un-drum is a complex interaction between music composition, body movement, performance, and computer and electronic engineering. It is a series of intense physical sound performances that Tarek Atoui started in 2009.
The Chinese connection looks back at the cultural shift that China went through during the Maoist revolution. At this time, all traditional and modern art forms got radically affected and altered by the new communist ideology that purged music, theatre and arts from traditional and occidental influences, promoting new esthetics aiming to raise a new popular myth. The sound material is taken from demonstrations and trials of opera, music and art masters judged by the youth of the communist party. On the cultural level, the Maoist and the Pan-Arabist movements applied the same totalinarist mentality, and even after the fall of the Pan-Arabist ideology, many national and popular movements in the Arab world today follow the same strategies in creating new mythes and sectarian identities. Produced by the Shrajah Art Foundation in the frame of the exhibition Disorientation II.
