Firas Khnaisser
“Endless Darkness“
Saturday 12th September
5 Florence Street, Glasgow, G5
From 7pm
Endless Darkness is a thirty-minute live performance and broadcast about persistence: the way bodies, sounds and identities endure through fragmentation and metabolise to form something new while constantly faced with the possibility of erasure.
Firas Khnaisser is a Syrian/Lebanese performance artist and musician based in Edinburgh. His work is informed by themes of colonialism, pop culture, myth and ritual. His practice centres on performance and free improvisation using electro-acoustic instruments, found objects and found sounds. He hosts TFEH, an experimental concert series at the Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, alongside Ali Robertson and Collette Martin. Firas is a member of the bands Off Brand and Vole Invasion, and also sits on the board of the inclusive music charity Sonic Bothy. Current collaborators include Ali Robertson, Armin Sturm, Fritz Welch, Euan Currie, Nikki Moran and Paul Thomson. Has releases on Scatter Archive, Chocolate Monk, Artsy records, Giant Tank, Takuroku among others.