‘NO & LO’ IS A RECURRING PARTICIPATORY INTERVENTION WHICH HERE TAKES FORM IN ITS FIRST ACTIVATION AS A DRINK-BASED CEREMONY. THE DRINK COMBINES STRONG HALAL HERBAL AGENTS AND THE SIX FRUITS OF PARADISE CULTIVATED ON-SITE WITH HERBALISTS AND POMOLOGISTS AT AZAHARA INTERNATIONAL’S PERMACULTURE FARM TO PRODUCE AN ELIXIR BASED UPON THE DRINK OF JANNAH.

THE WORK REFUSES MOCKTAIL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXES WITH RELATIONAL, EDIBLE SUFI WINE-POETRY – POINTING PARTICIPANTS TO ‘DHAWQ’ OR TASTING OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE, AS THEORISED BY IBRAHIM NIASS (D. 1975). IN THIS ACTIVATION, THE ARTIST OFFERS TWO DRINKS BASED ON THE PROPHET’S HEAVENLY ASCENT, WHERE HE WAS OFFERED A CHOICE OF WINE OR MILK. PARTICIPANTS CHOOSE ONLY ONE DRINK, RESIMULATING THE PROPHETIC ELECTION. THE CHOICE REVEALS SYSTEMIC SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AS ERUPTIVE MATERIAL DECISION-MAKING.

SERVING VESSELS – PLASTIC GALLON BOTTLES AND COOKING POTS RESPECTIVELY – REFERENCE WATER PURIFICATION AND REDISTRIBUTION METHODS ACROSS CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM CONTEXTS, WHERE SCARCITY STRUCTURES ACCESS TO BOTH EMBODIED AND SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT.

IN THIS ORCHESTRATED TEST-SITE, THE SACRED AND THE SCARCE INTERMINGLE IN A FABRICATED ENCOUNTER — OFFERING A CULTURAL & SPIRITUAL PROPOSITION TO THE COMMUNITY OF ÓRGIVA AND GRANADA. INSPIRED BY THE 60S CONCEPTUAL ART & 70S PSYCHEDELIC MOVEMENTS THAT THE TOWN’S COMMUNITY-ELDERS HAIL FROM, THE WORK OFFERS BACK TO THEM AN OFFERING ONCE OFFERED TO THE PROPHETIC ESSENCE THAT PRECEDES, AND UNITES US.

PHOTOS BY NABIL TURNER