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The artist will be present on the occasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening on Thursday, 8 June 2023 at 5-7 pm. Welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Beast Type Song<\/em>\u00a0(2019) is a 38-minute narrative about the treachery of language, woven from diverse texts, lore, music, dance, post-apocalyptic science fiction and apocalyptic reality. A layered text full of references, coded meanings, translations and mistranslations, quotations, scripts and inside jokes, the film is the result of <strong>Sophia Al-Maria\u2019s<\/strong> frustration with language, writing and her work as a screenwriter for commercial television. The artist has described the process of making the film as a nasty cough that turned into a deep, beastly roar.<\/p>\n<p>Mixing archival footage and live performances, <em>Beast Type Song<\/em> brings together a group of dissenting debaters, some long dead and mythologised (<strong>Michelle Cliff, Mohamed Choukri, Ghassan Kanafani, Shakespeare\u2019s Caliban<\/strong>) and some contemporary (artist <strong>Tosh Basco<\/strong>, actors <strong>Elizabeth Peace <\/strong>and<strong> Yumna Marwan<\/strong>, Al-Maria herself and the white doves). The narrative is framed by the 1989 poem <em>The Arab Apocalypse<\/em> by Lebanese artist <strong>Etel Adnan<\/strong>. The protagonists move the film forward in non-linear leaps as they examine their colonial legacies and seek, through drawing, movement and music, an unspoken, repaired, and freer state of being. With the acronym BTS Al-Maria refers to the making-of genre, where one can follow a film or TV production behind-the-scenes. It also challenges the viewer to reflect on how our own script is written.<\/p>\n<p>Sophia Al-Maria (b. 1983) is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker living and working in London. Her artistic practice is united by a preoccupation with the power of storytelling and myth, and in particular with imagining revisionist histories and alternative futures. Her works on language, imperialism, postcolonial identities, and counter-history combine critical rigour and affective charge as she delves into investigating and dramatising the present. <em>Beast Type Song<\/em> (2019) is the first part of a trilogy, followed by <em>Tender Point Ruin<\/em> (2021) and <em>Tiger Strike Red<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is supported by the Finnish Heritage Agency. 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