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Meter & Light: Day    20243-channel audiovisual installation (20’00”)
Pictured at Recess and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 2024. 
Photo credit: Manuel Molina Martagon & Argenis Apolario
Meter & Light: Day is an aesthetic inquiry into the rhythmic foundations that fashion senses of time as lived by Muslims. Drawing upon the artist’s training in Islamic studies and as a composer, a 3-channel audiovisual installation enacts in music and in miniature the tradition's many interlocking rhythms: the passage of light, modes of cleansing, utterances in remembrance of the Divine, daily prayer.

  • Cinematography by Sam B. Jones
  • Audio engineering & additional production by Warren Hildebrand
  • Cast: Zain Alam, Hamza Tahir, Jesse Alvarez
  • Additional production by: 
  • Supported by: Wave Farm & New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Nawat Fes, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and The Laundromat Project

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“By the passage of time, man is in a state of loss indeed.” (103:1-2)
زين العابدين