New Radicalisms 2024 biennial
Doe Neutraal

Jessika Jamal Khazrik (live set)

Astrophysical, hyperbodily and alchemical, Jessika Jamal Khazrik’s live musical practice is deeply devoted to communal solace, collective transcendence and trans-generational healing. Born in year 7291 of her grandmother‘s enduring calendar, raised in a club at the outskirts of Beirut and brought up in the vicinity of a quarry secretly contaminated by toxic waste, she has been making music, performing and DJing, while being active in struggles for environmental justice and public science since early adolescence.

With genre-defying mercurial treatments of voice, drums and space, her sonic scapes intimately investigate the ecological and techno-political premises of continua we inhabit, co-create or forget. Khazrik holds BAs in Linguistics and in Theatre from the Lebanese University (LB) and a MS in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT(US) where she was awarded the Ada Lovelace prize.

In her plural practice as an artist, technologist, educatress and writer, Khazrik festively uses spaces of congregation to search for locally entrenched universalisms that could collectively respond to the dystopias of our times. She is the founder and caretaker of “Cartography of Darkness”, “POST-CORONIALISM” and “AATMA ✦ عتمة” and is involved with several collectivising projects with or without names.