Watch this video premiere on Wednesday Feb 8 at 8:30pm Eastern at https://youtu.be/IsbthTVUPCw
Composition and Performance by Leyya Tawil
Video by Isaac Kopecky
Flamingo Heights, CA
33 minutes
Leyya Mona Tawil [Lime Rickey International] is an artist working with sound, performance, and hybrid transmissions. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Her work has been presented throughout the US, Europe and the Arab region. Tawil was the 2020 ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow for her NOMADIC SIGNALS series, which continues into 2023. Her work Lime Rickey Internatonal’s Future Faith commissioned by Abrons Arts Center (NYC) and the KONE Foundation (Helsinki) was nominated for a 2019 “Bessies” Award in Music (NYC). Recent residency/engagements include Wysing Art Centre/British Council (UK), Sharjah Art Foundation’s Tarek Atoui Sound Residency (UAE), The Poetry Project (NYC), JAM3A Festival (Detroit), TBA:22 (Portland) and Yucca Valley Material Lab's Music Residency Program. Tawil is also the director of TAC Temescal Art Center (Oakland) and the Arab.AMP platform.
Watch this video premiere on Wednesday Feb 8 at 8:30pm Eastern at https://youtu.be/IsbthTVUPCw