http://www.hamraabbas.com Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:28:05 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.hamraabbas.com/eine-seite/zikr/comment-page-1/#comment-4 In this is a sign for those who reflect « hamra abbas Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:19:04 +0000 http://181570.webtest.goneo.de/wordpress/?page_id=821#comment-4 [...] In this is a sign for those who reflect (2009) is inspired by my attendances at meditation sessions in Pakistan. Also called zikr, these were primarily meditations of a Sufi tradition. The sessions offered a feeling of immense solitude alongside an overwhelming awareness of human presence, as the sounds of meditative chanting and breathing reached powerful crescendos. The movement of the walls, synchronizing with the sounds of breathing, recorded at these sessions, can be read or misread as an enclosing experience. My interest is to recreate elements of a sensory experience in the zikr sessions to imagine the power of synchronizing to one single idea or belief. In this is a sign for those who reflect is commissioned by 9th Sharjah Biennale. Video [...] [...] In this is a sign for those who reflect (2009) is inspired by my attendances at meditation sessions in Pakistan. Also called zikr, these were primarily meditations of a Sufi tradition. The sessions offered a feeling of immense solitude alongside an overwhelming awareness of human presence, as the sounds of meditative chanting and breathing reached powerful crescendos. The movement of the walls, synchronizing with the sounds of breathing, recorded at these sessions, can be read or misread as an enclosing experience. My interest is to recreate elements of a sensory experience in the zikr sessions to imagine the power of synchronizing to one single idea or belief. In this is a sign for those who reflect is commissioned by 9th Sharjah Biennale. Video [...]

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