Origin Dakar, Senegal, Kuwait Labels Hyperdub, Fade to Mind Occupation(s) DJ, music producer Name Fatima Qadiri | Instruments synth, computer Role Musical Artist Years active 2009–present Record label Hyperdub | |
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Genres Electronic music, dance, Experimental Albums Asiatisch, GSX Remixes, Genre-Specific Xperience, Desert Strike EP, Warn-U, Desert Strike Similar People Visionist, Helen Feng, Kode9 Profiles | ||
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Fatima Al Qadiri, born in July of 1981, is a Kuwaiti musician and visual artist. She is interested in exploring the experience of war, memory, Western perceptions of other cultures, and sociocultural identity through her work. She is a member of the group Future Brown.
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Delta launchpad profile on musical artist fatima al qadiri
Biography
Fatima Al Qadiri was born to Kuwaiti parents in Dakar, Senegal in September 1981, where her father was doing work as a diplomat at the time. She moved back to Kuwait with her family at age two and, at age seventeen, Al Qadiri graduated from high school in Kuwait and went on to pursue a college education in the United States. On scholarships from the Ministry of Higher Education in Kuwait, Al Qadiri briefly attended various colleges -- Pennsylvania State University, George Washington University, and the University of Miami -- before transferring to New York University and earning a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics at age twenty-two. After college, she went to various different cities in the United States before moving back in 2007. She is the daughter of Mohammed Al Qadiri, a former Kuwaiti diplomat and writer, and Thuraya Al-Baqsami, an internationally acclaimed artist and writer.
Career
In October 2010, Al Qadiri produced "Muslim Trance", a mini-mix for DIS magazine under the alias Ayshay, which garnered her attention. She also began her blog Global .Wav on DIS Magazine earlier that year. In 2011, Al Qadiri and the Kuwaiti artist Khalid Al Gharaballi received a grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture to produce a video and sculpture installation entitled "Mendeel Um A7mad (NxIxSxM)" shown at Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) Kuwait in 2012.
From 2011 – 2012, Al Qadiri released several EPs on the labels Fade to Mind, UNO and Tri Angle (under the name Ayshay).
In March 2013, Al Qadiri became a member of the 9 (now 8) person art collective GCC, whose work has been exhibited at the MoMA PS1, Fridericianum, Sharjah Art Foundation and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Her debut album, Asiatisch, was released by Hyperdub.
She is also part of the group Future Brown, a collaboration with Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda of Nguzunguzu and J-Cush of Lit City Trax. Their self-titled album was released on Warp Records in 2015.
Published works
Discography
Albums
EPs