Nadia Buyse is an artist, theorist, cultural activist and musician. Nadia’s music jumps from genre to genre, being tied together by DIY aesthetic, trans medial performance 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. She is currently a program manager at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.
Visiting Artist lectures are free and open to the public on a space-available basis.