In this explosive Season 1 finale of Studio Visit, the tables turn as co-host Dr. Omar Kholeif steps into the hot seat, becoming the ultimate subject of enquiry. Moving through spaces of intense vulnerability, displacement, and institutional critique, Kholeif lays bare the raw mechanics of an artistic life—from the painful labor of world-making and the constant shift and drift of identity contortion. The haunting nostalgia of Mariah Carey ballads sit alongside unbridled dream found in the artist's voice. Recorded live across their London studios, the street, and public transit, this raw, unfiltered dialogue unpicks the boundary between artist, curator and creator, asking what it truly means to survive the world of art when a presence alone might just become a revolutionary act unto itself.
Hosted and produced by Levin Haegele in association with Tabari, Dubai.
The Season Finale was published to coincide with Fellow Travellers, Dubai and Afterglow: Residue from a Departed Sun, Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, London.
Vocal stylings: by Omar Kholeif, circa 2017-2024.
Theme Tune: Stellar's Sea Cow by CleckHuddersfax. Courtesy our friend, Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
Studio Visit is an artPost21 Production
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