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

Lauren Frances Adams 1/4/21 Lauren Frances Adams 1/4/21

Crazy Quilt

This wallpaper design appropriates from the historic American textile technique called crazy quilting; commemorative ribbons are reworked into a new framing device for elevating specific women in the history of North Carolina