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Ω…ΩΩŠΩƒΩŽΨ§Ψ¦ΩΩŠΩ’Ω„(Ψ©Ω’) Ψ―ΩŽΨ§ΩˆΩΩˆΨ―Ω’ | Michael(a) Daoud:


Michael(a) Daoud is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds in the expanded field of time-based art. Working across archive, conceptual, visual and performance art, they treat time itself as a primary medium; stretching, layering and choreographing it through durational formats, repetition and cyclical structures.

Raised in Egypt and trained in Art and Architecture in Syria, Daoud has been based in Berlin since 2015 and is currently completing the M.A. Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). Their work rethinks archival and mythological narratives in relation to histories of forced movement, asking how waves of migration shape collective memory and large-scale identities. Personal narratives of migrationΒ intersect in their work with broader imaginaries of human exile, understood as a continuous, almost timeless condition rather than a singular event.

Originally trained as an architect and plastic artist, Daoud shifted from designing structures to inhabiting them, using the body and movement practices to interrupt linear time and re-script how duration and repetition are experienced. They work with space as a temporal medium, choreographing objects, bodies and atmospheres into sentimental tableaux where fiction and reality overlap. In these staged settings, time becomes both subject and material: not simply real-time, but a dense, dreamlike temporality in which different epochs, memories and futures are held together.

Michael(a) Daoud has presented their work in Berlin at Haus der Statistik, CoCulture, Schwules Museum, Berlin Aids-Hilfe, the UdK Rundgang, English Theatre Berlin’s EXPO Festival, , the Performing Arts Festival Berlin-PAF, the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre, the Perugia International Journalism Festival, the Oslo World Festival (Norway), STAMP street art festival (Hamburg) and the Singapore International Festival of Arts -SIFA, among others.