Image from Falling, Midday a performance intervention documented by Guevara Namer, Lisbon, Portugal 2020

bio

Sara Fakhry Ismail (FKA SFI) is a performance maker, visual artist, facilitator, and licensed somatic education practitioner. Their artistic research is practice-based, and process-oriented. Their primary areas of research are the body as a sense-felt space of dynamic conflict between hegemonic structures and agency. Their work will often center human and non-human emotion and sensation, interiority and relationships between embodiment and spatiality. In FKA SFI’s work, emotion and sensation act as information, revealed as fields of collective experience, and a starting point to questions regarding care and agency. 

Their practice moves accross text, image making, devising, scoring, performing and facilitating participatory live works. Their work will often combine stretches from performance, combining more than the medium, often times in conversation with  print / publication, as forms of documentation, research sharing and dissemination; at other times, the publication “performs” the text and conveys affective worlds of the work. Sara often works collaboratively with artists, writers and cultural practitioners, producing work through discursive and editorial processes of call-and-response. 

Sara teaches and facilitates tools and methodologies from their somatics, and the intersection between somatic and urbanism. They also teach performance-making practice within various contexts, as well as collaborative devising and methods of artistic interventions.

Sara’s works were presented within diverse contexts and various locations, some of which are: Dance Research Studio and Camden People’s Theatre in London, Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo, B’sarya in Alexandria,  Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark, Citadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto in Italy, to name a few.
Sara holds a B.A in Theatre & Performance from the American University in Cairo and an M.A in Contemporary Performance Practice from Royal Holloway University of London.