{"id":61331,"date":"2025-04-09T17:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=61331"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:17:15","slug":"aseel-alyaqoub-three-films","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/aseel-alyaqoub-three-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Aseel AlYaqoub: three films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A screening of three films by Aseel AlYaqoub, currently featuring in the NYUAD Art Gallery&#8217;s important <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyuad-artgallery.org\/en_US\/our-exhibitions\/main-gallery\/between-the-tides-a-gulf-quinquennial\/\"><em>Between the Tides: A Gulf Quinquennial<\/em> <\/a><\/strong>exhibition (due to close on 20 April and well work seeing \u2013 again, if you&#8217;ve already been).<\/p>\n<p>Through archival excavation and performative reenactment, AlYaqoub explores the entanglements of militarism, memory, and inherited state rituals in postcolonial Kuwait. Drawing from found footage, oral accounts, and domestic gestures, the selected films \u2013 <em>When The Lyrebird Calls<\/em> (2022), <em>A Hundred Soldiers Somersaulting<\/em> (2020), and <em>Semiotics of War in the Kitchen<\/em> (2017)\u00a0 \u2013 trace the evolving iconography of war and resistance, from colonial influence to familial memory. Together, they question the reliability of inherited symbols and the quiet absurdities embedded in national myth-making.<\/p>\n<p>The screening will be followed by a moderated discussion with the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A screening of three films by Aseel AlYaqoub, currently featuring in the NYUAD Art Gallery&#8217;s important Between the Tides: A Gulf Quinquennial exhibition (due to close on 20 April and well work seeing \u2013 again, if you&#8217;ve already been). Through <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/aseel-alyaqoub-three-films\/\" title=\"Aseel AlYaqoub: three films\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,52],"class_list":["post-61331","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-film","cat_art","cat_film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61331"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=61331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}