‘Fugitive Grammars: Between Ibn Arabi and Ramon Llull’ is an artistic research project exploring alternative ways of constructing reality through language, symbols and permutation. The project creates a dialogue between Ibn Arabi’s science of letters, Ramon Llull’s combinatorial systems, and contemporary practices linked to Arab futurism, fugitivity and algorithmic governance. Through writing, diagrams, sound composition and dramatised lectures, the research examines how certain symbolic systems can open up spaces of opacity, imagination and coexistence that are partly irreducible to contemporary systems of legibility and governance. Rather than understanding the future as a linear prediction, the project sees myth, opacity and cosmological imagination as world-building technologies capable of opening up other possibilities for existence in the present.
Rasheed Jalloul is a Lebanese architect, interdisciplinary artist and composer based in Barcelona. His practice explores the relationships between architecture, sound, language and performance art as systems for producing space, memory and belonging. He has presented work at MACBA, Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, Museu Tàpies, Sâlmon Festival, RCR Arquitectes, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma and Kampnagel (Hamburg), among others.
