My Life My Life My Life in the Sunshine

OMAPA

Illustration and proof of the laws of motion

Building Affects, Body in/of the Archive

This is not America, ma’am

Practices of Care

Radio Parazit

Debris

Sonic Knowing

DIASPORIC IMAGINARIES

Semilla (Balkan Piperita)

Potential Choreography for Counterprompting

Physics of Entropy

Eyes Closed

O rio corre mais rápido em direção ao fim 

evth that remains to be lived

Liquid Ecologies

Always Middles

Винаги средни

The Cut 

Composite Sites

Brick, Dust, Matter

MATERIALITIES OF/FROM THE EDGE

Swimming Pool

ECOLOGIES OF PREHOD

Manar Moursi

Manar_Bio2.jpg

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I received three stones from an Ottoman bathhouse in Bulgaria that is no longer in use. Left to time and no longer maintained, the bathhouse is slowly transforming into a site of ruin. I bathed with these stones as pumice, rubbing my body as embalming, dissolving the stones’ minerals into my pores, and mixing stone elements with rolls of my dead skin. Through the repetitive rubbing, this gesture of bathing sits on the threshold between care, wearing away, and wound.

I performed this ritual of embalming and bathing in the hammam known as Malatili or Margush in Cairo, which dates from 1780, and is said to have been established at the time of an Ottoman Wali, Ismail Pasha. The second site I chose to perform in, is the site of an Ottoman Cairene bathhouse, the Tambali hamam that has recently collapsed. These two sites correspond to the two channels in the video. 

The golden age of Egyptian bathhouses was during Ottoman rule. According to some historical accounts, Cairo had more than 137 bathhouses. Currently, there are only four fully functional hammams remaining from this time period. Almost a century before Egypt, Bulgaria was also occupied by the Ottomans, an occupation that lasted 500 years yielding hamams such as the one I received a stone from. There are political differences as to why Ottoman bathhouses have fallen to this state of ruination in Bulgaria and Egypt, but in their condition of purgatory and decay, not wholly erased, nor in use, sitting uncomfortably between life and death – the ones that remain have in common the power to evoke past worlds, ghosts of masons, of architects, of vaults and pools of water, of bodies massaged and bodies massaging, of rubbing, dead skin and steam.


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Liquid Ecologies

evth that remains to be lived

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