Abdullah Miniawy
Concert / Premiere
Photo: Camilla Rehnstr
Dates
3.10.2024
Location
Dom im Berg, Graz
Part of
ORF musikprotokoll 2024
Production specifics
Abdullah Miniawy is a SHAPE+ Artist 2024.
In cooperation with SHAPE+ Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe
Supported by the European Union’s “Creative Europe” Program
With his first solo album Nigma Enigma (Hundebiss Records), poet and musician Abdullah Miniawy invites his audience to take a walk through the world that we—according to the belief of all world religions—will enter after our death. We experience this fictional afterlife from the perspective of an atheist ex-Muslim, who explains to God during the Last Judgement why he has turned his back on him. Religious dogmas, Miniawy explains, imprison people, who are actually free to grow.
Miniawy opens up a mental space in which the audience can create their own associations to develop new ideas. While improvising on song fragments, the artist dives into the dark areas of his innermost being in search of the meaning of his life. “And the light shines out of these dark spaces,” says Miniawy. “That’s impressive! Sometimes I feel so much pain during a performance, while the audience is full of joy. That's beautiful!”
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