Desert Without Sand: Third Sequence
Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices is a space for contemplation and investigation into the desert as both a physical landscape, an abstract concept, and a site for speculation. Through a cluster of activities, including performative reading, public events, and mapping and diagramming workshops, Sequential Practices aims to navigate and discuss multiple performative practices approaching to the desert’s complexity.
Third sequence
HOHOON
A Hoofed Hole-Ontology after the Development Catastrophe
[A Reading of 40’]
A performative reading from the work-in-progress The Bestiary of the Developmentocene, mixing images and sound (herding songs, field recordings and spoken text). HOHOON (هوهون ⵀⵓⵀⵓⵏ) appears not as metaphor but as a theory-fictional character. Knowledge moves through apertures, wells, hoof-cups, lee-shadows, pauses, rather than along smooth survey lines across a flattened Sahara. From this vantage, the dromedary is a site of co-sentiency and collaboration: survival as shared breath, tracked routes, and the exchange of thirst. The hole exists only when human and dromedary breathe, thirst, and remember.
AZ OOR (b. 1992) is a visual artist, noisist, storyteller, and poet living between Marrakech and Rotterdam. An Amazigh Futurist, AZ OOR’s practice operates at the intersection of fiction, history, and futurity. It is grounded in narrative speculation and a critique of the material and temporal conditions of the Developmentocene, a colonial and terraforming sphere that tends to accelerate, break, mine, disintegrate, and devitalize sentient and vibrant life into raw material, pure matter, and energy.
Tempodesert is a performance-based collaboration between Fay Aldhukair and Mohamed Abdelkarim, with occasional contributions from others. It emerged after experiencing the world “after 8/8,” a term coined when Fay and Abdelkarim watched The Draw of the Desert 8/8 Seminar by Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani on March 15, 2024.
They operate as a performative lab, poetically exploring the holistic and layered temporalities of the desert, geological, ephemeral, eternal, and mythological. Through various mediums such as performances, plays, texts, songs, films, publications, workshops, and walks, Tempodesert seeks to investigate, reclaim, and liberate the desert from colonial narratives and imposed perceptions.
Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices was made possible by Ettijahat and CBK Rotterdam.
