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Hadra Colider

Hadra Collider is a multimedia performance that reimagines the Large Hadron Collider as a particle accelerator built inside the artist's throat. Playing on the Moroccan word hadra—meaning both "talk" and "presence"—the work explores the instability of language across Darija, Arabic, English, Spanish, and Dutch. Through live performance and glitchy speech recognition, it turns algorithmic misreadings into openings for humor, critique, and new meaning. First shown at Rijksakademie and later at Berlin's HKW, Hadra Collider questions what orientation and communication mean in diasporic experience.

Salim Bayri  (b. Casablanca, 1992; lives and works in Amsterdam) is a visual artist and polyglot whose practice spans sculpture, performance, drawing, coding, tech, and the virtual realm. As a Moroccan citizen living abroad, Salim is often busy with 'what to keep and what to discard'. This applies to physical objects, virtual ones, ideas, and narratives. Some colonial ideas are ready to be thrown away, while others, such as Moroccan Darija, are to be preserved and revisited. Salim often thinks about his mother tongue, especially its code-switching particularity, where various languages can coexist in the same sentence. He looks for plastic and digital gestures that function in that way: switch between modalities, appropriates, and disorients.

Bayri holds a BA in Arts and Design from the Escola Massana (CAT) and an MA in Media, Art, Design and Technology from the Frank Mohr Institute (NL).In  2019-21, he was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst (NL), and in 2022 was awarded the Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize and the Charlotte Köhler Prize. His work has been shown in art spaces and institutions such as W139 (Amsterdam), CODA Museum (Apeldoorn), Alyssa Davis Gallery (New York), ADN Gallery (Barcelona), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao), GVCC (Casablanca), Hot Wheels (Athens), and La Capella (Barcelona) among others. Bayri is half of the music duo BAZOGA, and he is represented by Galerie van Gelder (Amsterdam), but he can often be found hanging out in obsolete online chatrooms where diasporas gather, and where strangeness, blasphemy, and "pulling each other's legs'' are common practices

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Identity Crisis Network

Salim Bayri

Hadra Colider

Hadra Collider is a multimedia performance that reimagines the Large Hadron Collider as a particle accelerator built inside the artist's throat. Playing on the Moroccan word hadra—meaning both "talk" and "presence"—the work explores the instability of language across Darija, Arabic, English, Spanish, and Dutch. Through live performance and glitchy speech recognition, it turns algorithmic misreadings into openings for humor, critique, and new meaning. First shown at Rijksakademie and later at Berlin's HKW, Hadra Collider questions what orientation and communication mean in diasporic experience.

Salim Bayri  (b. Casablanca, 1992; lives and works in Amsterdam) is a visual artist and polyglot whose practice spans sculpture, performance, drawing, coding, tech, and the virtual realm. As a Moroccan citizen living abroad, Salim is often busy with 'what to keep and what to discard'. This applies to physical objects, virtual ones, ideas, and narratives. Some colonial ideas are ready to be thrown away, while others, such as Moroccan Darija, are to be preserved and revisited. Salim often thinks about his mother tongue, especially its code-switching particularity, where various languages can coexist in the same sentence. He looks for plastic and digital gestures that function in that way: switch between modalities, appropriates, and disorients.

Bayri holds a BA in Arts and Design from the Escola Massana (CAT) and an MA in Media, Art, Design and Technology from the Frank Mohr Institute (NL).In  2019-21, he was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunst (NL), and in 2022 was awarded the Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize and the Charlotte Köhler Prize. His work has been shown in art spaces and institutions such as W139 (Amsterdam), CODA Museum (Apeldoorn), Alyssa Davis Gallery (New York), ADN Gallery (Barcelona), Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao), GVCC (Casablanca), Hot Wheels (Athens), and La Capella (Barcelona) among others. Bayri is half of the music duo BAZOGA, and he is represented by Galerie van Gelder (Amsterdam), but he can often be found hanging out in obsolete online chatrooms where diasporas gather, and where strangeness, blasphemy, and "pulling each other's legs'' are common practices

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