Concerning Geographies Entangled Histories

Monya Riachi

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Recorded live at TACO! on 8th February 2025.

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Future Artefacts FM host artist Monya Riachi, as part of their New Weird Mini-series. Her work, Concerning Geographies: Entangled Histories, a speculative letter, addresses cartography across the Levante and the UK. Heard here as part of a live performance debuted alongside research unfolding the processes of map making, and their relationships to borders and power as imperial constructions.

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Bio:

Monya Riachi is a Lebanese artist and architect. Her practice is material driven and research-led, and is realized through installation, sculpture, moving image, performance and writing. Her work centres matter as a site of narrative and archive, and engages with themes around loss, ecological transformation, the politics of land and time, and the entanglement of histories of her home and adopted countries Lebanon and Britain. . Her research draws on feminist new materialist philosophy and quantum entanglement theory to disclose how matter is generative in creating new matter and new worlds.Monya is based in London and works between the United Kingdom and Lebanon. She holds an MFA from Glasgow School of Art, and is the recipient of the 2024 Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Award. Her work has been shown in London, Beirut and Glasgow. Previous residencies include ‘Material Futures’ at Cove Park, ‘Neither at Land Nor at Sea’ with Cittadellarte, and Ashkal Alwan in Beirut.

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You can read the full transcript of this episode here

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