Future-Islam™: Musical Solutions

Future-Islam™: Musical Solutions is a musical examination of contemporary developments in modern (Islamic Republic of) Iran. It occurs in the face of sensitivities, anxieties and contradictions caused by the clashing forces of: tradition vs. modernity; religionism vs. secularism; nativism vs. globalism; and Islamism vs. humanism.

In order to establish an environment responsive to emotions as such, Future-Islam™: Musical Solutions locates its argument within discourses of the post-revolutionary subversive movement of ‘Iranian Underground Music’. Excavating various sites of knowledge concerning the Iranian underground phenomenon, it then sets up a reactive mode of cultural production against these contradictory forces. By doing so, Future-Islam™: Musical Solutions consequently activates a speculative space which allows the fictionalization of future outcomes and transmutations of such synthesis, in form of musical arrangements and constructions.

Future-Islam™: Musical Solutions is part of the Future-Islam™ (a fictional start-up company which renders a dystopian future in the Middle East as a result of the fusion of free-market capitalism and Islamic Governance). This film has been shown as part of the MOP CAP 2017 Finalist Exhibition (Bonhams, London), Between The Beach and the Lounge (play_station space, Wellington) and the Gate of Tehran (Silent Green, Berlin).