The Lips Are Different
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2020
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The Lips are Different is about the Canadian citizen Suaad Hagi Mohamud — born in Somalia — who was accused of not being a Canadian citizen when she tried to return to Canada from Kenya in 2009. The work links over-surveillance, racial discrimination, photography, media representation and issues of identity. It comprises real-time video written in Jitter; improvised music based on a comprovisation score and both performed text and screened text.
An article about the piece Creative Collaboration, Racial Discrimination and Surveillance in The Lips are Different containing the piece itself can be found here.
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