ARTIST BIO
Rima is a community organizer, poet and a budding DJ. Their practice is centered around event planning as a tool for community healing and resistance. As well as playlist curation and podcasting, Rima is attempting to revive the lost art of mixtape making, bringing back sonic extensions of our mindset and emotions.Â
A visual activist Rima is interested in telling their own narratives through whatever medium is most available to them. By harnessing these experiences of the creative field, academia and, their life and varied creative pursuits they seek to share a sense of semblance to discern truth in the rubble.
Within the We OnlyWant The Earth programme they attempted to create visual and material culture influenced by the future.
A4 Sounds Residency: Mother May I?
Mother May I?’ is a reconciliation between Mother Earth, the physical mother, and my fore-mothers. By exploring motherhood, growing up in the diaspora, colonialism and how they affect manifestations of gender. This gender-performance is tied into the negligence of our planet, and the betrayal of our fore-mothers and the land.Â
Through poetry, dance and song in the vein of their native Shawayga tribe they will explore their identity in relation to the themes above. Delving into what it means to be a full fledged being who’s aware of the legacies and events preceding them and how to harness this understanding towards expanding yourself and direct environment.Â
As part of this practice they are exploring sustainability when it comes to design. With a focus on natural dyes and sustainable materials. They are also taking a chance at sculpture making. Attempting to recreate traditional Sudanese instruments with Irish materials, as a nod to the Perseverance of ancestral wisdom and knowledge.Â
SELECTED WORKS
Mother May I?
2021 & 2022
Film & Exhibition Installation
A4 Sounds Gallery
Mother May I? is a body of work that attempts to consolidate the parts that make us whole. The first phase is a meditation on motherhood, ancestral work and mother earth. Mother May I? is a glimpse into a threshold suspended between time and space. As the entity descends into their human form, they’re shown a glimpse of what’s to come. Za’ar rituals influence a lot of this piece, tying the ancient practice of Sudanese Woman as an integral part of the collective memory, highlighting how important ritual is for preserving our identity and the collective memory.Â
Furthemore conversation and social collaboration stand at the heart of this piece. Interviews conducted with sudanese artists, artists, healers. Weave themselves into the heart of what this piece is about – conversation and collaboration that will allow for reconciliation of the parts of us we neglect as we pass through trials and tribulations of a country doused in the blood of martyrs and corruption. What does it mean to be Sudanese? How can we begin to build for the future we want without the ideals enforced on us?
Film Credits
Artist
Rima Hamid
Curator
Lisa Crowne
Production
Alec Moore | Filming & Editing
Mark Sebata | Editing
Semi | Sound Recording
Lisa Barry | Costume & Makeup
The Yard Florist | Props & Set
Seo | Soundscape
Rima’s Mum | Acting
Conversations
Rima would like to extend their thanks and gratitude to the folks who allowed them to hold conversation with them: Lema, Islam Al Beiti, Nada, Rula Osman, Rotation, O’D, TooDope, Afrodiziac, Rawag, Warda, Ola, Ahmed, Awad.
The Dispora Blues
2018
Poem
Diaspora Blues, a poem reflecting on being away from a hometown, you never got to know.
Souls at Sunrise
2018
Radio Show
Flirt FM
‘The revolution is now’ (2018), an episode of souls at sunrise, a radio/show podcast broadcasted on Flirt FM.