Mountains of Poetry Listening Session with Muyassar Kurdi and Jason Evans

Join us on Saturday, July 18 at 4pm for a listening session of Mountains of Poetry, a record by interdisciplinary artist Muyassar Kurdi, released by Bilna’es.

Rooted in voice, electronics, and improvisation, Mountains of Poetry reflects on memory, longing, displacement, and the relationship between body and land, tracing cycles of erosion and renewal. The listening session will be accompanied by projections of oil paintings created as graphic scores alongside the record. Developed in dialogue with the music, these works extend the record’s sonic landscape through image.

Following the listening session, Kurdi will be joined in conversation by filmmaker and curator Jason Evans to reflect on the making of Mountains of Poetry and the connections between sound, image, embodiment, and place within her practice.

Bilna'es is an adisciplinary platform that seeks to find new models for artists to redistribute resources and support one another in the production and circulation of work. It functions as a publishing space with releases ranging from music to video games, web projects, publications, performances, installations, and other yet-to-be-developed forms.

Jason Evans is an Australian-born, New York-based filmmaker and curator. Since 2008 he has run the online art archive This Long Century, a collection of personal reflections by artists, filmmakers, photographers, writers, and poets the world over. He has put together film programs for The Criterion Channel and Le Cinéma Club, in addition to an ongoing series of screenings and artist talks at Metrograph (New York).

Muyassar Kurdi is a Palestinian-American, New York City–based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound art, voice, movement, painting, analog photography, and film. Her practice honors both the futuristic and the ancient through meditative movement and sonic exploration. Centered on embodiment and a non-linear approach rooted in improvisation, she explores memory, displacement, and the body in relation to nature.