Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
***This video includes a pre-show talk; the performance begins at 15:08***
Fusing music and spoken-word poetry, Kaie Kellough and Jason Sharp will wield their percussive avant-jazz sound in a new performance piece they have dreamed up specially for the Aga Khan Museum.
Tying into themes from the Museum exhibitions Sanctuary and Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, UBGNLSWRE is a mixed-media performance that combines literature, electronic and acoustic sound, and graphic design by artist Kevin Yuen Kit Lo. It is an extended meditation on the present moment. It considers individual and collective selfhood in a world whose future appears increasingly vulnerable, and whose past is prologue. It seeks possibility by asking, "Where do we begin, and how do we continue?"
UBGNLSWRE was originally set to premiere in the Museum's Auditorium in April, but that performance had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 lockdowns. Now, Kellough and Sharp have re-envisioned their new work for online audiences, drawing on their own creative resilience to turn unforeseen challenges into new artistic opportunities.
This presentation is the first of three presentations in the series You Begin Elsewhere. This project is produced and presented by the Aga Khan Museum, in collaboration with The Music Gallery as part of their X Avant XV: Transmissions festival.
***This video includes a pre-show talk; the performance begins at 15:08***
Fusing music and spoken-word poetry, Kaie Kellough and Jason Sharp will wield their percussive avant-jazz sound in a new performance piece they have dreamed up specially for the Aga Khan Museum.
Tying into themes from the Museum exhibitions Sanctuary and Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, UBGNLSWRE is a mixed-media performance that combines literature, electronic and acoustic sound, and graphic design by artist Kevin Yuen Kit Lo. It is an extended meditation on the present moment. It considers individual and collective selfhood in a world whose future appears increasingly vulnerable, and whose past is prologue. It seeks possibility by asking, "Where do we begin, and how do we continue?"
UBGNLSWRE was originally set to premiere in the Museum's Auditorium in April, but that performance had to be cancelled due to COVID-19 lockdowns. Now, Kellough and Sharp have re-envisioned their new work for online audiences, drawing on their own creative resilience to turn unforeseen challenges into new artistic opportunities.
This presentation is the first of three presentations in the series You Begin Elsewhere. This project is produced and presented by the Aga Khan Museum, in collaboration with The Music Gallery as part of their X Avant XV: Transmissions festival.
