rhythmanalysis w/ mona el husseini (2023)

research on rhythms w/ mona el husseini

2 TVs, Speakers, Chalk, Bodies, Rocks, Notebooks.

Mona and Cassraa arrived in Iceland with Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis as a common guide to research their shared questions about rhythm and everyday life. What transpired is an interest in contrasting yet complementing rhythms; internal and external, metropolitan and oceanic, private and public.

Cassraa’s Research during the residency involves the following and more:
- Incorporation of rhythms in different forms of media
- The spectacle and the capitalist economy of attention
- Process of accepting/rejecting social rules when entering a new space/society/group
- Documenting changes in gestures/movements/body’s rhythm in new spaces
- Capturing arrhythmia and disorder

Mona’s Research at SÍM:
I am fascinated by the complex intricacies of the human body and the internal rhythm of bones. How they move independently, in relationship to one another and to the external world. As I place my body in different spaces, I am curious to observe the relationship it fosters with its changing environments and the dialogues that emerge. I have been practicing repetition in different forms: I draw a vertebra, I document my rhythm in a diary, and I explore repetitive motifs in my dance practice. I am developing a keen attunement to the rhythm of landscape and oceanic tides, as well as to drawing parallels between internal structures in the human body and external ones in nature.