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MAFF Loves Armenia: Larisa Safaryan

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Missing: You so much a letter to all the dreamers

Missing: You so much a letter to all the dreamers Creative director/producer: Your friend, daao Director/DOP/edit: Naran Evdeev 1AC: Edward Kurginyan Music/sound design: Shhau & Your friend, daao Color: Tigran Aghajanyan

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MAFF Loves Armenia: David Sahakyan - Woozy Tunes

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MAFF Loves Armenia: Yeranuhi Nersisyan

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MAFF Loves Armenia: ԿԱՊ Kap Community

If you want to know whats going on: https://t.me/s/kapcommunity

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MAFF Loves Armenia: Khoren Matevosyan

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MAFF Loves Armenia: Victor Zatikyan

This is what happens when the Cinebox 250D, a Nikon f4, and photographer, Victor Zatikyan come together

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Egypt's ancient zar ritual

At Cairo's Makan Cultural Centre, the Mazaher ensemble performs a lighter version of "zar", an music and dance ritual with centuries-old roots, that aims to ward off or exorcise jinn, or evil spirits.

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Mahmoud Khattab somewhereincairo

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Mohamed El-Masry films Hurghada, Egypt

Cinematographer based in Cairo, Egypt Mohamed El-Masry films Hurghada.

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From Cairo Streets To The World

Coddiwomple a word that means “to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination” We think that through the journey of every creator in Cairo there’s a lot of rage, wars and doubts within the process of expressing yourself to the world, but they still do it anyways.

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Ghada Amer, My body, My choice

Ghada Amer’s garden installation takes up the well-known battle cry promoted by the women’s and gender equality movement since the 1970s “my body my choice” and spells each of its letters in a red resin box filled with plants. While over the past fifty years, this tagline has been co-opted by a number of groups around the world with entirely contradictory agendas, Ghada Amer’s garden, like her art in general, reminds us of the early intent of the mantra, that of promoting women’s rights and equality. In an interview with Sahar Amer in April 2022, Ghada Amer states: “In Western societies, there is an assumption, especially among the younger generations, that the battle of the sexes has been won, that women have been liberated, and that their rights are secure. And yet, we are witnessing today a sharp regression of women’s rights and a stark rise of violence against women. However, in countries where one assumes women’s rights to be limited or absent, such as in Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, or Mexico, women of the younger generation know they have a lot to gain from fighting for those very same rights that are eroding in the West. So they are not letting down their guard and they are continuing to fight fiercely.” The phrases that Ghada Amer sculpts for her garden architecture are similar in that regard to the sentences that she embroiders on her canvases. These sentences are taken from a number of male and female authors from different backgrounds and they are intended to remind us of central teachings and wisdom related to women’s rights. Amer says that “by reading and repeating these sentences, they will hopefully become mantras, incantations that the viewer will end up remembering.” She adds that “women’s rights can never be taken for granted. Women must continuously mobilize, fight, and never let their arduously acquired rights decline, fade away and vanish.”

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Headroom

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“Headroom” is a hybrid word from the English and Korean translation for "headbang". My mom, Younja Lee, and I perform a series of rituals as a visceral process of healing. My mother recounts a divination she received from a fortune teller before immigrating to the U.S. Through movement, we create a dialogue between shifting states of self, mirroring into and out of one another, entering into a trance state as a form of agency. Hair is simultaneously dead and living, functioning as a tapestry of histories and biologies - a weaving of nonlinear temporalities. Our bodies become a site of liberation and a rejection of determinism. The (un)raveling is a transference of memories, pain, and bliss, and transforms into a shared intergenerational heirloom that enables a reclamation of joy. Incorporating narrative, documentary, and performance, I explore the intimate relationship between my mom, a Korean immigrant, and me, a Korean-American, to retrieve the things that have been lost in translation and through migration. Movement has always been a binding agent for us. She was trained as a traditional Korean dancer and we would perform together in my youth. Dance is an art form that is passed through the body. Unlike language, movement can be utilized as a decodified form of communication. Trauma, too, can be inherited biologically. The phenomenon of epigenetic inheritance hypothesizes that stressful experiences can be passed to future generations through molecular processes. These body scores untangle, reverse, and abandon the directionality of determinism. The score structure allows us to move without choreography, creating a space of expressionistic freedom. By showing my mom how to headbang, a movement completely foreign to her and a natural reaction to music for me, we disrupt the hierarchy between ascendant/descendant, mother/daughter, and human/human. In order to preserve traditions, we reinvent them.

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Christine Yerie Lee (Memphis, TN) is an interdisciplinary artist and designer working in sculpture, moving image, and installation. Her work addresses personal and collective memory, hybridity, and visibility by engaging with history, myths, and pop culture. She plays with spectatorship and perception as a form of agency, often using her body to articulate ideas around resistance and resilience. Through worldbuilding and material exploration, she aims to illuminate the distinct and parallel threads of the human experience to provide pathways for connection and an inclusive future. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and is currently pursuing her MFA in Art at California Institute of the Arts and has shown at Faena Arts Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina), De Punt Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Y2K Group (NYC), and California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA). She has designed for a roster of fashion labels including Adam Lippes, 3.1 Phillip Lim, EDUN, and Club Monaco.

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