Bassam Issa Al-Sabah is a resident as part of the Beta x transmediale Residency programme. During their residency, Bassam Issa Al-Sabah will develop Uncensored Lilac – a new AI animated film.
A story about revenge and desire, Uncensored Lilac questions the ways in which climate change affects and alters social and environmental relations. The film follows a group of goddesses, who may or may not be aliens, and their assembly of familiars, pets, servants, and technologies. Set in a dreamlike hallucinatory landscape that mutates between ornate embellishments and its original form, the landscape and the assembly have been invaded and altered by a toxic species, making them nurturing but venomous.
Commissioned for transmediale 2024 and supported through the residency programme, Uncensored Lilac is an exhibition by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan. The exhibition is a result of their ongoing exchange and collaboration.
