DIG 2025: Asim Abdulaziz - 1941 (Yemen)
As part of Tramway's Dance International Glasgow festival their gallery programme presents Asim Abdulaziz - 1941 (2021), a short experimental film directed and produced by the Yemeni artist.
About DIG 2025: Asim Abdulaziz - 1941 (Yemen)
An eloquent and compelling meditation on war,and the disorientation and alienation experienced by Yemenis.
Screened on a loop in our front gallery (T5) at the following times:
Sat 17 May | 12 – 7.30pm
Sun 18 May | 12 – 5pm
(CLOSED Mon)
Wed 21 May | 12 – 7.30pm
Thu 22 May | 12 – 5pm
Fri 23 May | 12 - 5pm
Sat 24 | 12 – 6pm
Sun 25 | 12 – 5pm
Running time, 4 mins 43
After learning that knitting was a significant way for women in the United States to participate in the war effort during World War II, Abdulaziz was struck by how, in contemporary Yemen, knitting as an act of solidarity in a time of war would seem entirely absurd. The repetitive nature of the hand movement guiding the needles and stitching the wool thread distracts one from pondering the past and future, locking the knitter into a timeless present. By staging the practice in Yemen, Abdulaziz draws an embodied metaphor around the quotidian experience of war—captive to the logic of survival—that inhibits projecting oneself into a future of self-realization. Moreover, in a gender role reversal that further accentuates the strangeness of implementing this action in Yemen, the artist cast ten men of different generations and filmed them knitting with red wool inside one of Aden’s historical landmarks: a Hindu temple long abandoned to decay. He disrobed them—the men are shirtless, itself a provocative gesture in Yemen, which underlines the act’s absurdity. 1941 is an eloquent and compelling poetic meditation on war’s prohibition of claiming agency over time and self.
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