https://www.harakaplatform.com/press daily 0.75 2021-10-24 https://www.harakaplatform.com/press/2019/3/11/misty-mountains-me-cgdfp-6y3js monthly 0.5 2019-06-28 https://www.harakaplatform.com/press/2019/3/11/monmouth-glacier-ak-e7j2m-9phzg monthly 0.5 2019-06-28 https://www.harakaplatform.com/press/2019/3/11/echo-range-mx-bknel-27d2k monthly 0.5 2019-06-28 https://www.harakaplatform.com/press/2019/3/11/zrmanja-falls-croatia-acyjg-ge8d6 monthly 0.5 2021-10-24 https://www.harakaplatform.com/press/2019/3/11/haauknee-slabs-az-w8n6p-mf8w8 monthly 0.5 2019-06-28 https://www.harakaplatform.com/press/2019/3/11/ahi-point-wa-m2jkc-babj8 monthly 0.5 2019-06-28 https://www.harakaplatform.com/tour daily 0.75 2021-10-21 https://www.harakaplatform.com/home daily 1.0 2021-11-02 https://www.harakaplatform.com/about daily 0.75 2021-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634863024474-ILUPW9Q137AA99LDFPB3/Cairo+KitKat+Club-+HaRaKa+Platform.png About Us عنا - About Us HaRaKa Platform was established in 2006 by a group of artists, theorists, and specialists based in Cairo, Berlin and New York City HaRaKa is the first platform dedicated to performance studies and movement research and practice in Egypt and the Arab region, and through local, regional, and international partnerships, it has curated, produced, published, researched, and set up pedagogic programs in the Arab world, Europe, and the US. Its latest projects were presented at La Mama Theatre (US), Sharjah Architecture Triennial (UAE), Shubbak Festival (UK), Cairo Opera House (Egypt), Hebbel Am Ufer (Germany), Impulstanz (Vienna), among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634862576431-E440L6C7NKLC67SJIRN3/adham+hafez-+photo+by+Nurah+Farahat+%281%29.jpg About Us عنا https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634862600076-UEODY563E2T0L7FCKZU8/Mona+Gamil.jpg About Us عنا https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634862653227-P4G2MEHPUPY7OSJKRP1I/Lamia+Gouda+%28Portrait+by+Nurah+Farahat%29.JPG About Us عنا https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634862865376-97U4BKMASET0JLK1BGLD/IMG_4846_cropped_blurred.jpg About Us عنا https://www.harakaplatform.com/curatorial-practice daily 0.75 2023-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/76c23552-5bd0-410e-9d0a-99f18b3e5397/AHCO+-+Suspended+Dispersed+DSC03763lr.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635031585797-16CNGBKTUWSUYW5ZZWKG/TD13-poster+by+Ahmad+Aiyad.jpg Curatorial تنسيق - Make it stand out TransDance Festival flyer, 2013 Desgined by Ahmad Aiyad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635031152283-VV1LLEX432WSUOK636KM/SUM-Sama+Waly-+photograph+by+Mohammed+siraj.jpg Curatorial تنسيق ‘SUM’, Performance and Installation by Sama Wali, at TransDance Photograph by Mohammed Siraj https://www.harakaplatform.com/merch daily 0.75 2021-10-21 https://www.harakaplatform.com/merch/p/poster-k9pwt monthly 0.5 2019-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce470bcbc4af100017f26ef/1559238478129-NJC9E8I8NL3EDARG7FDQ/poster-3.jpg Merch - Poster https://www.harakaplatform.com/merch/p/album-mflt7 monthly 0.5 2019-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce470bcbc4af100017f26ef/1559239305946-8YAZ1PJNKR27G7ZSZR8U/record.jpg Merch - Album https://www.harakaplatform.com/merch/p/t-shirt-6ta34 monthly 0.5 2019-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce470bcbc4af100017f26ef/1559239243077-DDO30R8KMU5O0609V57E/t-shirt-square.jpg Merch - T-Shirt https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2 daily 0.75 2023-12-02 https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/project-six-xldak monthly 0.5 2021-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634861291387-NM5MA3D2SU95FZXABRYO/To+Catch+A+Terrorist-+Irene+Hultman+performing+with+Adam+Kucharski-+HaRaKa+Platform-+Photo+by+Carlos+Cardona.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - To Catch A Terrorist Irene Hultman performing and Adam Kucharski Photo by Carlos Cardona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634862112765-UXA731NK2ILDAPE2MIPV/To+Catch+A+Terrorist-+Photo+by+Carlos+Cardona+%283%29.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - To Catch A Terrorist Irene Hultman and Adam Kucharski Photography by Carlos Cardona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634861891104-AC9Q4IR9XCRGIDKD8VUV/To+Catch+A+Terrorist-+Photo+by+Carlos+Cardona+%282%29.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - To Catch A Terrorist Irene Hultman performing ‘To Catch A Terrorist’ Photograph by Carlos Cardona https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/project-three-m5l5a monthly 0.5 2021-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634842833605-JLQ9SLANHD83DRA3ZZGF/Cairo+KitKat+Club-+HaRaKa+Platform-+Photo+%285%29.png Projects مشاريع فنية - Cairo KitKat Club - Make it stand out Archival map of Downtown Cairo, seen during a lecture-performance by American urbanist Adam Kucharski during ‘Cairo KitKat Club’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634842907562-4C9JDZS66RP026E4T893/Cairo+KitKat+Club-+HaRaKa+Platform-+Photo+3.png Projects مشاريع فنية - Cairo KitKat Club - Make it stand out Opera singer Ohoude Khadr reenacting famous cabaret personas from the late 19th and early 20th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634842666350-MSL105179D9XRBN4ZGHT/Cairo+KitKat+Club-+HaRaKa+Platform.png Projects مشاريع فنية - Cairo KitKat Club Mona Gamil, Lamia Gouda, Adham Hafez, performing at ‘Cairo KitKat Club’, a Covid-Striptease https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/project-four-kmje6 monthly 0.5 2023-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634843825041-CRZT1GADRB7EVHRGP9NY/ETMAC-+Adham+Hafez+and+Adam+Kucharski+performing-+HaRaKa+platform.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - ETMAC - Extra Territorial Ministry of Arab Culture ETMAC or the Extra Territorial Ministry of Arab Culture is an experiment in institutional critique. Set as a fictitious ministry that supports cultural and artistic labor from artists forced to live in state of refuge or exile, the ‘ministry’ stages fake conferences, lectures, competitions and publishes regularly. Inaugurated in 2017, ETMAC has toured in Europe and North Africa, contributed to several books and digital publications, and created multiple educational and research projects. An embodied critique, an excavation of representative politics, and an exercise in unearthing the performative potential of designing bureaucracy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634844086465-QM12ISOW87RDMM0PCM4Q/ETMAC-+Photo+by+Adam+Kucharski.JPG Projects مشاريع فنية - ETMAC - Make it stand out ETMAC installed as a conference and an architectural competition, held at Napoli’s historical Municipal hall In partnership with AltoFest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634844564893-CL5CSE9X1NE9YF16HUJ4/ETMAC-+Performance+Score+designed+by+Adam+Kucharski-+HaRaKa+Platform.png Projects مشاريع فنية - ETMAC Detail from ETMAC’s performance images, set in a future of further displacement of Arab artists and intellectuals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634844988593-NY5NV02UQF9OJJZR6WNR/ETMAC-+Adham+Hafez+and+Lamia+Gouda+and+Adam+Kucharski+at+Cite+de+la+Culture+in+Tunisia-+HaRaKa+Platform.png Projects مشاريع فنية - ETMAC - Who is represented? ETMAC constantly asks the question ‘who is represented in cultural policy?’ What kind of artistic forms do we include in policy and in developing grants to support contemporary art? Will a belly-dancer ever be able to present her contemporary choreographies within institutions of contemporary art, or do they see themselves separate in terms of highbrow art and popular culture? ETMAC held a conference in Tunisia’s ‘Cite de la Culture’, upon an invitation from the inaugural edition of the Carthage Dance Festival, engaging the audiences with the constructed persona of a contemporary belly-dancer (performed here by Lamia Gouda) as she explained the need for re-assessing culture policy based on her needs that fall through the cracks. The conference was directed by a humanoid AI (played by Adam Kucharski), and a director of critical defense, performed by Mona Gamil. An Orwellian take on the future of culture as diplomacy, and of the canon of western contemporary art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634845869132-AOLBF0UEB7JYITD705AH/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+3.50.57+PM.png Projects مشاريع فنية - ETMAC - Latest publication by ETMAC, on RESHAPE Click the button below for the full article انقر الزر أدناه للحصول على المقالة كاملة https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/project-two-mnds7 monthly 0.5 2021-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634840728889-03UGI7HHXEMCOK1Z3V0A/B24A2124.JPG Projects مشاريع فنية - In 50 Years Or So - Make it stand out Mona Gamil and Lamia Gouda performing ‘In 50 Years Or So’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634840837648-YGW2RXVA3SSBU7S48X7H/In+50+Years+Or+So-+Lamia+Gouda+and+Mona+Gamil-+HaRaKa+Platform.png Projects مشاريع فنية - In 50 Years Or So Mona Gamil and Lamia Gouda, reenacting speeches of US politician Mike Pompeo, in costumes by Monzlapur New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634840934454-UFHXNN5JHNA23JMWJW4J/Screen+Shot+2019-11-22+at+6.54.56+PM.png Projects مشاريع فنية - In 50 Years Or So Mona Gamil, in costume by Monzlapur New York, performing an animal-humanoid futurist choreography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634841638643-258AU9PJWXAM6N8TPYSY/Screen+Shot+2019-11-17+at+11.18.44+PM.png Projects مشاريع فنية - In 50 Years Or So Adham Hafez narrating and singing the history of forced labor and mega projects https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/project-one-skafg monthly 0.5 2021-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634838707111-NMFLR0UEB0RRCTH9XK27/2065BC20Berliner20Dom-1.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - 2065 BC 2065 BC a still from a series of public performances, and video installations (Right to left, Lamia Gouda, Alaa Abdellateef, Mona Gamil, Fatma Kamal) Photograph by Nurah Farahat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634839144025-RECKG4JA4KQVJZDPE0GZ/AdhamHafez_2065BC_IanDouglas003.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - 2065 BC 2065 BC Multimedia conference reenactment performance Photograph by Ian Douglas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1634839509278-N3DD4IVWZZC35BOL3CWO/Decolonizing+Performance+Practices-+Photo+from+2065BC+by+Rana+Elnemr+%282%29.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - 2065 BC 2065 BC performed at Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin Photograph by Rana El Nemr https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/project-six-xldak-wbz92 monthly 0.5 2021-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635116078701-FVZFQ3B9HIMF1XY8EKHV/AHCO+BodiesBread%26Mud0607_02lr.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - Bodies, Bread and Mud Nagla Younes performing in ‘Bodies, Bread and Mud’ at the Theatre of the Republic, Cairo Photography by Rana Elnemr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635116182964-CGJ1ZMCPN6MM3U33JB5Y/AHCO+BodiesBread%26Mud0607_09lr.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - Bodies, Bread and Mud Nagla Younes, Katja Bosman, Maryam Saleh Saad, and Dalia El Abd (Left to Right) Photograph by Rana Elnemr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635116235108-23RYLYWTPXXSPSL74GO3/AHCO+BodiesBread%26Mud.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - Bodies, Bread and Mud Maryam Saleh Saad and Dalia El Abd (Left to right) Photograph by Rana Elnemr https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/project-one-skafg-hk7xh monthly 0.5 2021-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635118333586-LYC14INPXCTB9WEPJQVX/AHCO+-+Frankenstein+lrDSC_0297.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - FRANKENSTEIN Ahmed El Gendy performing to live visuals by Ikon Chiba Photograph by Ahmed El Sayed (Rouby) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635118898664-7V2P80EP16SPY43F4ZI1/f2.JPG Projects مشاريع فنية - FRANKENSTEIN Advertisement for non-existing products, produced for Frankenstein Deborah Stokes, photographed by Ikon Chiba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635120398188-55FQ80LGRANIND0N0SU2/DSC_0084.JPG Projects مشاريع فنية - FRANKENSTEIN Shayma Shoukry, Ezzat Ezzat, Deborah Stokes, Ahmed El Gendy (Left to right), performing in Frankenstein Photograph by Ahmed El Sayed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635120425466-VMEUR327OEL3CV5KMYQQ/DSC_0104.JPG Projects مشاريع فنية - FRANKENSTEIN Mona Gamil live-writing and projecting over the performers a live analysis Photograph by Ahmed El Sayed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635120562124-F2J1SJ7EF1JO7SW6XBFP/FRANKENSTEIN+IMG_5567lr.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - FRANKENSTEIN Deborah Stokes modeling for the project’s fake fashion magazine Photograph by Ikon Chiba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635120588221-QHIRBSIOOPW73JOPDABQ/Picture+3.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - FRANKENSTEIN Frankenstein’s poster as an extension of the performance, utilizing performative imagery Designed by Ikon Chiba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635120703490-SRYW9413SUB8KHSJNBBG/DSC_0289.JPG Projects مشاريع فنية - FRANKENSTEIN - Make it stand out Ahmed El Gendy and Ikon Chiba performing the process of designing a fashion magazine cover Photography by Ahmed El Sayed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635119649732-FSKLL01WLTO8JMYBDKKH/frankenstein+1.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - FRANKENSTEIN Deborah Stokes, Shayma Shoukry, Mona Gamil and Sawsan Gad Photography by Ahmed El Sayed https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/project-six-xldak-b9h5l monthly 0.5 2021-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635121729213-VZ4KEKW9HSJ6MUBUPV7K/Korpus1-lr.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - KoRpuS Adham Hafez performing KoRpuS Photograph by Ikon Chiba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635121799929-DJV5NGPEOPKFW2JW0H61/korpus2-lr.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - KoRpuS Adham Hafez on stage performing KoRpuS Photograph by Ikon Chiba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/1635121830580-7IDZI4GSJ9Y8LOY225GM/Korpus3.jpg Projects مشاريع فنية - KoRpuS The stage installation as the curtains open for KoRpuS Photograph by Ikon Chiba https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/ouroboros monthly 0.5 2023-03-10 https://www.harakaplatform.com/portfolio-2/project-four-kmje6-f6stp monthly 0.5 2023-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/d5dcb566-346c-4dda-87fc-bdf1eaf18a5d/Electrodomestics+Adham+Hafez+poster.jpeg Projects مشاريع فنية - The Electrodomestics - The Electrodomestics “if they don’t like it, they can eat it!” The Electrodomestics is a fictitious band and performance series created by Adham Hafez and Constanza Macras in 2017, and reflects on a certain notion of ‘home affairs’ by staging political debates, songs, dance and choreography within a kitchen show set up on stage. Inspired from the two artists’ love for hosting dinners, and their durational conversations as friends and collaborators. With urgent issues to be dealt with in nowadays Europe, this band for ‘domestic affairs’ investigates the domestic in the context of the household (the personal, the familial, the emotional, ...etc), and relates it to the larger context of the domestic affairs (the local, the national, the people...etc). Songs written as recipes, and recipes written as songs, performances of the band Electrodomestics take place within installation settings that combine sound, prepared food, installed text and video together with live performance in order to produce ephemeral performances of glam-rock and of pop simplicity and immediacy, while handling matters that are coined ‘urgent’ or ‘contemporary’. Inviting several dancers, musicians, and designers, the Electrodomestics premiered in Berlin’s “Verlin”, in 2017, and has been performed at several venues since then including Nordwind Festival, Savvy Gallery, Teatr im. J. Słowackiego w Krakowie. The project imagines a band of strange and dandy musicians, who in an attempt to revive their music they stage a campy live cooking-show on stage, where the audience ends up in a collective dinner after cabaret-style performances, and invited guests in public interviews. This fictitious band investigates the concepts of cultural background and identity, in a context of cosmopolitan cities and migration. Based on the performers’ circles of family and friends, the group uses their social surroundings to explore phenomena and constructs like collectivity and nationality. Boundaries between the performers and the audience are made thin, opening a space for exchange, critical friction and togetherness. Original songs-lyrics were written by Adham Hafez along with several monologues, reflecting on anti-Arab racism, and western apathy towards non-white political struggle, and intersectionality. Each performance would host speed ‘talk-shows’ inviting guests in various fields from architecture, to music and cinema. Electrodomestics can be positioned within a long practice of choreographer, composer and curator Adham Hafez’s engagement with cabaret as a format, along with HaRaKa Platform’s multiple projects investigating this fleeting genre. With an interest in the hybrid format and its multidisciplinary nature, as well as its vibrant history, cabaret both as a theme as well as strategy repeatedly emerged in the company’s creations and collaborations. For the Electrodomestics, a focus on cultural dialogue, and political urgency fueled this format with songs, sung-poems, interview format scenes, and choreographic reenactments. Equally, an investment in malleable forms such as cabaret are evident in alternative format-works by Dorky Park Company, in projects such as “ALBUM”. Both artists enter into creative conversations, staging multiple lives for their fictitious band. Created by Adham Hafez and Constanza Macras Production of Constanza Macras | Dorky Park, HaRaKa Platform Music by and with Almut Lustig, Kristina Lösche-Löwensen Lyrics and texts by Constanza Macras, Adham Hafez, Charlene Ibrahim, and others Costumes by Reda Gharib, and Constanza Macras | Dorky Park Performers include Maryam Palizban, Miki Shoji, Sonya Levin, and guests https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/5aa4b5d9-ac15-4da8-b568-947cc63bd065/Electrodomestics-+Adham+Hafez+Live.jpeg Projects مشاريع فنية - The Electrodomestics - Make it stand out Adham Hafez performing in The Electrodomestics (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603c19999959d83fcdc15aad/b83ca148-ce55-457d-98c8-992b2161af6b/Electrodomestics-+Adham+Hafez.jpeg Projects مشاريع فنية - The Electrodomestics - Make it stand out Constanza Macras (left), Adham Hafez (center, in black handmade faux-fur created by Reda Gharib for HaRaKa Platform and the Electrodomestics), and Jan Sebastian Suba (right), cooking on stage at The Electrodomestics (2017)