As part of a month-long residency and takeover at Mosaic Rooms, 1000 Pounds to Survive Us (B.U.I, Matt Cargill, Kareem Samara and Ayesha Hameed) stage their opening performance weaving together poetry, improvisation and sound.
Their residency forms part of sounding towards - -, using the gallery as a site of daily practice: playing in and with the building, and inviting other musicians, noisemakers and thinkers into the space to shape what follows.
This first performance is the product of the band’s initial meeting in the space, testing ideas and playing in and with the building itself. Expect a set shaped directly by that process of discovery.
Throughout their takeover there will be listening and participatory sessions, announced weekly via Mosaic Rooms' Instagram page.
Bio
1000 Pounds to Survive Us came together as part of a fundraiser for the Gaza Sunbirds at Café Oto in 2025. Made up of B.U.I, a poet and sound-maker whose practice echoes themes of temporal fracture, nguni cosmology and being a Londoner; Matt Cargill, original member of Sly & The Family Drone who uses live performances with a mixture of electronics and acoustic instruments, creating unpredictable and immersive experiences; Kareem Samara who explores the fragile, violent and personal histories between the oud and contemporary Palestinian performance practice; and poet, writer and artist Ayesha Hameed who amplifies subaquatic legacies of indenture, transatlantic slavery and illegalised migration.
As part of a month-long residency and takeover at Mosaic Rooms, 1000 Pounds to Survive Us (B.U.I, Matt Cargill, Kareem Samara and Ayesha Hameed) stage their opening performance weaving together poetry, improvisation and sound.
Their residency forms part of sounding towards - -, using the gallery as a site of daily practice: playing in and with the building, and inviting other musicians, noisemakers and thinkers into the space to shape what follows.
This first performance is the product of the band’s initial meeting in the space, testing ideas and playing in and with the building itself. Expect a set shaped directly by that process of discovery.
Throughout their takeover there will be listening and participatory sessions, announced weekly via Mosaic Rooms' Instagram page.
Bio
1000 Pounds to Survive Us came together as part of a fundraiser for the Gaza Sunbirds at Café Oto in 2025. Made up of B.U.I, a poet and sound-maker whose practice echoes themes of temporal fracture, nguni cosmology and being a Londoner; Matt Cargill, original member of Sly & The Family Drone who uses live performances with a mixture of electronics and acoustic instruments, creating unpredictable and immersive experiences; Kareem Samara who explores the fragile, violent and personal histories between the oud and contemporary Palestinian performance practice; and poet, writer and artist Ayesha Hameed who amplifies subaquatic legacies of indenture, transatlantic slavery and illegalised migration.