Muyassar Kurdi: ‘Brain Works’ presents new inventions in language, sound (homemade electronics), images, movement, and performance based on the fragments of her near-death experience. Having suffered a brain injury in 2004, Muyassar taps into the idea of memory in ‘Brain Works.” Having had to relearn how to use her entire body again, to speak, and to function normally, she had to retrain her muscles and her mind to carry out everyday movements. Brain Works’ explores visual rhythm, memory, subtlety, and gravity while honoring the futuristic and the ancient.
Muyassar Kurdi (b. 1989 in Chicago) is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound art, extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, analog photography and film. She has toured extensively in the U.S. and throughout Europe. She currently focuses her attention to interweaving homemade electronic instruments into her vocal and dance performances, stirring a plethora of emotions from her audience members through vicious noise, ritualistic chants, and meditative movements.