Bleep

Conversations in contemporary art attempt to dislocate our understanding of the archive, drawing attention to the inherent violence of categorisation. Ramallah Underground co-founder and Aiwa Collective member Asifeh draws focus to our archive fever with his third LP Makhazen Bukra. Translated as “storage spaces of tomorrow”, the record is a flayed beat tape of dystopian sci-fi aesthetics, created with abandoned electronics salvaged from the digital skip of history — otherwise overlooked by a society hell-bent on the new — over which Asifeh delivers fire and brimstone lyrics meditating on the future of the human race and the hyper-capitalist myth of progress.