Postscript Magazine 1/4/21 Postscript Magazine 1/4/21

A Note from the Editors: Issue 35

Narmeen Hamadeh 1/4/21 Narmeen Hamadeh 1/4/21

A Journalist From Palestine

Narmeen Hamadeh’s work places deep importance on the Arab footprint, emphasizing her Palestinian heritage

Sarah Alagroobi 1/4/21 Sarah Alagroobi 1/4/21

Stitches

Sarah Alagroobi's fine abstract art magnifies delicate intricacies through bright colors and patterns

Godefroy Dronsart 1/4/21 Godefroy Dronsart 1/4/21

Primordial Soup

Two improvised audio pieces by Paris-based artist Godefroy Dronsart that explores noise as an aesthetic

Garreth Chan 1/4/21 Garreth Chan 1/4/21

Downward Facing

Enter the studio: a yoga class devolves from tranquil to disturbing for the socially anxious

Badr Abbas 1/4/21 Badr Abbas 1/4/21

Food for Thought

Emirati artist Badr Abbas's loud Cubist-style paintings point the fingers of satire against modern food culture

Ø Macioti 1/4/21 Ø Macioti 1/4/21

Echoing

Specializing in album covers, concert flyers, and alternative merch, Ø Macioti's illustrations delve into punk and atmospheric journeys between music and noise

Noura Al Ali 1/4/21 Noura Al Ali 1/4/21

Reconstitution of Being

Noura Al Ali's emotional 3D landscapes probe the Earth through multiple perspectives

LOVTRE 1/4/21 LOVTRE 1/4/21

Desert

Audio artist LOVTRE's work has us floating through space, imagining the noise of planets mingled with the noise of humanity

Taylor Rossics 1/4/21 Taylor Rossics 1/4/21

How to hold a ceasefire

Taylor Rossics explores violence within the mind and body in this poem

Vamika Sinha 1/4/21 Vamika Sinha 1/4/21

You Give Me That Contact High

The UAE, like many countries, has grown increasingly entranced with hip-hop culture, streetwear, and their history. This cross-cultural interest manifests in the arrival of the "Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop" exhibition at Manarat al Saadiyat, reviewed here by EIC Vamika Sinha

Aravind Kumar 1/4/21 Aravind Kumar 1/4/21

Psychedelic Rhapsody

Weaving from Jay-Z to Khruangbin, Aravind Kumar takes us through a "psychedelic" listening practice

Hamza El Baciri 1/4/21 Hamza El Baciri 1/4/21

Noise Borne by the Body

Visually raucous digital collages that dig into gender and the psyche

Larayb Abrar 1/4/21 Larayb Abrar 1/4/21

The Sounds of Mina Zayed, Slowly Fading

Gentrification is also an act of controlling noise. Larayb Abrar evokes the rhythms of a port on the brink of change

Amber Lane 1/4/21 Amber Lane 1/4/21

Art of Corruption

A poem aimed at the political orchestrations made and fired against Black bodies

Malik Ameer Crumpler 1/4/21 Malik Ameer Crumpler 1/4/21

My Coffee

Drawing on the rhythmic flow of rap, this poem emerges from the incomparable buzz of a coffee cup

Daniel Clark 1/4/21 Daniel Clark 1/4/21

censor

In a vibrant poem as small as a teacup, Daniel Clark explores censorship and the stamping out of noise

Thero Makepe 1/4/21 Thero Makepe 1/4/21

Music from My Good Eye

Combining photographic languages, this body of work addresses the history of musicality and activism in Thero Makepe's family lineage between Botswana and apartheid South Africa

Ayah Rashid 1/4/21 Ayah Rashid 1/4/21

Representation: Is It All Just Noise?

New in Style Odyssey, Ayah Rashid examines the fashion industry's shortcomings in advocating for increased diversity

J.P Schwenck 1/4/21 J.P Schwenck 1/4/21

Color IV

Part of a larger experimental film documentary, Color IV turns a darkly nostalgic eye on the angst, violence, mundaneness, and loneliness of adolescence