Poems of Consumption turns Amazon customer reviews into “pop songs” written, composed, arranged, and produced by H.Sinno and their collaborators. The harsh electronica and lush string quartet are accompanied by video work by Sinno and Matteo Zamagni which further saturates the performance with a relentless barrage of phantasmagorical visuals.
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Inspired by Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, polymath H.Sinno searches for fugitive intimacies and poetic temporalities by jamming Amazon’s 5-star rating system with poetry about their own consumer behavior. Commissioned by the Barbican Centre and Shubbak Festival in July 2023, Poems of Consumption is a multimedia anti-spectacle that marks H.Sinno’s first lyrical excursion into the English language, as well as the former pop-star’s first solo work since Mashrou Leila.
This is a standing room-only performance. If you require ADA accomodations, please email boxoffice@nationasawdust.org.
ABOUT H.SINNO
H.Sinno (they/them) is a composer, writer, and performer. Their research explores vocalities as sites of political negotiation. They have been the lyricist and front-person for Mashrou Leila since 2008, agitating conversations around representation, free speech, and sexual freedoms in the Middle East. H has a BFA from the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut, and an MA in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College. Their debut full-length opera, Westerly Breath, was in development at The Industry Los Angeles, and opened at the New York Met Museum in January 2024. Their solo debut, Poems of Consumption, is a song cycle built around poems written in Amazon customer reviews, exploring the overlaps of consumerism, mental illness, and environmental crisis. Poems of Consumption debuted at London’s Barbican Centre in July 2023, and is currently on tour in the US. Their writing has been published by Poetry Project, Frieze Magazine, The Derivative, Theater Magazine, Bard College, and others.
ABOUT NEW YORK ARAB FESTIVAL
New York Arab Festival (NYAF) is a multidisciplinary festival spanning all genres of art, culture, design, cuisine, philosophy, and intersecting industries. It programs arts and culture from the Arabic-speaking region and the Arab diaspora and showcases Arab American artists, particularly those working and living in NYC. NYAF showcases artists and speakers from Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and beyond.
NYAF was established in 2022 to commemorate Arab American Heritage Month and fight the erasure of Arab and Arab American identities from New York City, a place that Arabs have called home for over three centuries. Many are unaware that the first country to acknowledge the American Declaration of Independence was Morocco, an Arab country, cementing centuries of cultural, diplomatic, economic and political relations between American and Arab people. At the NYAF, we believe in the urgency of dialogue between cultural practitioners in the US and Arabic-speaking regions, with a special focus on Arab American histories and practices.
NYAF was founded by Arab, Arab American, and American artists, curators, and cultural operators and is organized and run by its founding members: Artistic Director and Curator Adham Hafez, Urbanist and Curator Adam Kucharski, and the festival’s founding Senior Producer Cindy Sibilsky. NYAF is produced by HaRaKa Platform and powered by Wizara LLC in partnership with many celebrated institutions in NYC and worldwide. Website: www.newyorkarabfestival.com Instagram: @newyorkarabfestivalofficial