new project

Mustaf Ahmeti

Description

Their prac­ti­ce is dee­ply root­ed in their per­so­nal expe­rien­ces as a non-bina­ry per­son living in schism. They use a vari­e­ty of media, inclu­ding per­for­man­ce and visual/​installation art, to con­vey their com­plex and often con­tra­dic­to­ry perspectives.

They explo­re the­mes of iden­ti­ty and body poli­tics, dis­pla­ce­ment and the expe­rien­ce of queer bodies in repres­si­ve socie­ties. Their research draws from a wide ran­ge of sour­ces, inclu­ding mytho­lo­gy, the­o­lo­gi­cal ima­gery and ico­no­grap­hy, mys­ti­cal prac­ti­ces, eso­te­rism, Sufism, clas­si­cism, the Middle Ages, posthumanism/​transhumanism, cyber­punk, and queer the­o­ry. These fra­me­works are acti­ve­ly woven together to reima­gi­ne sup­pres­sed modes of repre­sen­ta­ti­on, body poli­tics, and spe­cu­la­ti­ve futu­res, with the aim of dis­rup­ting domi­nant orders and ope­ning spa­ce for forms of exis­ten­ce that esca­pe bina­ry or nor­ma­ti­ve definitions.