Bint Mbareh is an artist working with sound as a physical medium. She is concerned with its capacity to cross borders between bodies as well as in between continents, thereby rendering some borders less powerful in some imaginaries due to its ability to build connections between physical entities as well as the borders between now and then. She has researched rain summoning music as a way of re-defining the borders between seasons and therefore questioning the linearity between the past, present and the future usually taken for granted. Communal singing and listening practises play a vital role in her understanding of communities’ abilities to build infrastructures to experiment with care in the face of oppression. Bint Mbareh has performed at the Lincoln Centre in New York, at Darat al-Funun in Amman, at Khalil Sakakini in Ramallah, Cafe OTO in London among other spaces.

MACC collective is formed of seven students from Chelsea College of Arts’ MA Curating and Collections course – Sara Abahsain, Elspeth Bland-Dear, Faisal Ghloum, Beata Li, Junnan Li, Qingrui Lin, Zhipeng Wen. Bringing a diverse range of cultural and educational backgrounds, the collective works to playfully ask questions, to learn through practice, and to enable participation.