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Biography
Fatima Al Qadiri (born 1981) is a Kuwaiti musician and visual artist.
Biography
Fatima Al Qadiri was born in Dakar, Senegal, and left for Kuwait shortly after. Al Qadiri won a government scholarship to study in America after finishing high school and in 2004 earned her bachelor's degree in Linguistics from New York University. She is the daughter of Mohammed Al Qadiri, a former Kuwaiti diplomat and writer, and Thuraya Al-Baqsami, an internationally acclaimed artist and writer.
Career
In October 2010, Al Qadiri produced "Muslim Trance", a mini-mix for DIS magazine under the alias Ayshay, which garnered her attention. She also began her blog Global .Wav on DIS Magazine earlier that year. In 2011, Al Qadiri and the Kuwaiti artist Khalid Al Gharaballi received a grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture to produce a video and sculpture installation entitled "Mendeel Um A7mad (NxIxSxM)" shown at Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) Kuwait in 2012.
From 2011 – 2012, Al Qadiri released several EPs on the labels Fade to Mind, UNO and Tri Angle (under the name Ayshay).
In March 2013, Al Qadiri became a member of the 9 (now 8) person art collective GCC, whose work has been exhibited at the MoMA PS1, Fridericianum, Sharjah Art Foundation and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Her debut album, Asiatisch, was released by Hyperdub.
She is also part of the group Future Brown, a collaboration with Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda of Nguzunguzu and J-Cush of Lit City Trax. Their self-titled album was released on Warp Records in 2015.
Published works
- Mahma Kan Athaman (with Khalid al Gharaballi, Sophia Al Maria and Babak Radboy) published by Bidoun magazine, Issue 20, New York, 2010.
- Pâté (with Lauren Boyle) published by Common Space, New York, 2011.
Discography
Albums
- Brute (2016) Hyperdub
- Asiatisch (2014) Hyperdub
EPs
- Desert Strike (2012) Fade to Mind
- GSX Remixes (2012) UNO
- Genre Specific Xperience (2011) UNO
- Warn-U (2011) Tri Angle