Sam B. Jones Cinematographer, still from Zain Alam, Meter & Light: Day, 2024, 3-channel audiovisual installation, dimensions variable
Date:
Friday, November 22, 2024, 6-9pm
Reception: 6-7pm
Meter & Light: Night (work-in-progress) premiere: 7pm
Artist talk with historian Syed Shiraz Ali (UC Berkeley): 7:30pm
DJ set of Sufi music & inspirations by Zain Alam: 8pm
Recess
46 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
For the closing night of the residency, Session artist Zain Alam will screen Meter & Light: Night, a work-in-progress and the second part of his installation series that was produced during Session with collaborators Sam B. Jones, Zeerak Ahmed / SLOWSPIN, and Warren Hilldebrand.
After the premiere, Zain will be joined for an artist talk/Q&A with Syed Shiraz Ali, an intellectual historian of early modern Muslim South Asia at UC Berkeley. His interests include the history of rationalist disciplines like philosophy, astronomy, and logic during the postclassical period of the Islamic world.
Zain will close out the night DJing Sufi music and inspirations for Zain will close out the night DJing Sufi music and inspirations for Meter & Light.