This week Six Pillars airs audio from the Kerning Cultures podcast, a widely collaborative project based between Dubai and USA, via other countries. Their piece Middle East for Trump caught our attention as they interviewed unlikely Trump supporters in USA prior to the highly publicised media circus that is the American elections. “You can imagine … Continue reading
Street artists from the world over are gathering this week in Jordan to celebrate Middle Eastern and North African female street artists and support women’s rights in the region. The festival theme is “Stories from Fear to Freedom”, and WOWBaladk, was organised by AlBalad Theater and ست الحيطة – Women on Walls. Attendees are from … Continue reading
Now produced from the United Arab Emirates, Six Pillars weekly show broadcasts on Tuesdays 21.00-21.30 hrs and repeats Thursdays 16.00-16.30 hrs. This week Neil Van Der Linden, editor of the Gulf Art Guide interviews Tunisian, currently Dubai-based calligraffiti artist El Seed, while on his residency at Tashkeel gallery. In a country where graffiti is more … Continue reading
Tajassom is a graffiti artist from the Middle East, who began work in about 2005. A media savvy guy, who can speak several languages at least at a basic level, his tag name in Persian imaginative things or to be inspired. Here’s his bio in his own words: “If he’s not painting the streets, he’s … Continue reading
A1one is one of the better known street artists in Iran’s capital, along with Artists such as Icy and Sot and GhalamDAR and others. There is a strong presence of Iranian graffiti art culture that has grown up without need of state permission, with it’s own innovative language and symbolism calling on Persian calligraphic tradition, the … Continue reading
The Adrenaline Sports Club in Tehran, Iran. Excellent soundtrack. Continue reading
