4.6.2025 at 17–18
5.6.2025 at 17–18

floor, Seminar
Tickets: 15 / 12 €
Tickets from Kiasma’s info desk 1h before the showtime.
in English

The performance addresses memory, belonging, and identity through the means of Arabic pop music.

Fragmented Geography explores themes of memory, belonging, migration, and sound as a geopolitical force. The performer enters with a suitcase, unpacking cassette decks, symbolizing the act of revisiting and reclaiming memories. Through sound, particularly 1980s Arabic pop music, the piece navigates personal and collective histories of displacement, queerness, and Palestinian identity. The performance uses cassettes as a medium to construct an “alternative sonic homeland,” offering both nostalgia and resistance.  

Throughout the performance, the audience is invited to dance, emphasizing the communal power of sound in shaping identity and bridging past and present experiences. The work ultimately highlights the ways in which sound, migration, and memory intertwine in diasporic existence. 

Artist

Moe Mustafa was born in Kuwait in 1985 to Palestinian parents, was brought up in Jordan. Currently based in Finland, Moe Mustafa is is a visual artist, performer, writer and composer – under the pseudonym Atheer Soot (أثير صوت). His work unfolds and contracts in multiple ways, exploring the role of memory, the impact of familial and societal violence, and hierarchy of sexual desirability. Brash and personal, it is as such a fight against deniability.

Thank you

Even Minn for dramaturgical consultation.