Saturday, September 30 & Sunday, October 1
6:30pm Doors / 7pm Show
Tickets $15 (discounted or free for members)
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S3ljam is a 2-night performance and convening that formally presents a compilation of 6 scores collectively developed in workshops between December 4, 2022, to January 15, 2023, as part of Sunday Sessions X MAJLES, during Sholeh Asgary's residency at Berkeley Art Center. Sunday Sessions built upon, and at times, broke down, MAJLES, a program that situates the body as a site of knowledge, enacting movement and voice from and within the physical place they occupy to explore complex relationships to space, place, and one another. "Majles" is an Arabic and Persian term that translates to council. In this context, it refers to a creative contract as a form of decentralized governance. The weekly 3-hour Sunday Sessions sought to build collaborative and cross-cultural processes of score writing within a non-hierarchical framework. Each composition connects specific types of movement work (including strikes, protests, home, collectivity, and rest) to the collective build and physical space within which the score is developed and eventually performed through sound, movement, silence, text, and image. 

For this special occasion at The Lab, S3ljam invites new and previous participants to formally and publicly perform these six collectively developed scores for the first time. In addition, there will be a limited edition gift. Ultimately, S3ljam proposes a creative sonic governance that is decentralized, asking how listening can reveal how we understand, relate, and world-build. 

September 30:

Roco Cordova
Kevin CK Lo
Gabby Wen
Michael Mersereau 
Donia Jarrar 
Mayakov+sky Platform (MA.P)

October 1:

Dena Al-Adeeb
Jorge Bachmann
Adrian Montufar
Ven Voisey
Leila Abdul-Rauf 
champoy

Sholeh Asgary (b. Tehran, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist whose works implicate the viewer participant in future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound. Her practice is a conglomeration of visual, sound, and collective processes, all of which she is deeply committed to. Featured in Art in America's 2022 "New Talent Issue" and a 2023 Artadia Finalist, Asgary's work has been presented by such institutions as ARoS Kunstmuseum, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Minnesota Street Project, Sotheby's Institute of Art, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Asgary is a UCLA Art|Sci Collective member and a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and California College of the Arts.