DUBAIS// SNOOZERS

Nadia Buyse is an artist, theorist, cultural activist and musician. Her solo band, DUBAIS, is a perpetually changing transmedia post genre performance guising as a band.

Nadia says:

I’ve always hated writing artist bios or album descriptions, not because of the process itself but because these tend to adopt a vernacular catered towards gatekeeping. What I mean by this is that you must make yourself identifiable or codable, not only by genre but also by values, aesthetics, race, gender, sexuality, politics, etc. It’s about placing you and your art somewhere or finding the place where you belong. This is language I personally feel very uncomfortable with… for what I suspect are normal reasons.

Nadia’s music jumps from genre to genre, being tied together by a DIY aesthetic and video art that spans over installation, performance, visual albums, experimental pop operas, etc. Although DUBAIS operates like a band, it’s a vehicle for conceptual work and cultural activism in which Nadia uses the tropes of pop music to examine Diasporic migration, neo-liberal dystopias, emotional incapacitations, consumer technologies, hybrid identities, intersectional feminism, and transnational communities. DUBAIS has released music, published text, taught a multitude of workshops, lectured, exhibited work, and performed internationally in a variety of spaces and places ranging from Conflict resolution Peace camps in Central Asia to dOCUMENTA (13) to punk houses across the globe. Nadia is also the singer/ guitarist for “UK Super group” SNOOZERS.