Safeya Alblooshi

Safeya Alblooshi is a sound artist who experiments with found sound via participatory performance and installation to engage with topics of conceptual narrative, environmental listening and interactivity in performance. Her sound work and collaborations extend to being presented and performed at the Expo 2020 Dubai, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, NYUAD Arts Center, Alserkal Avenue (Dubai), IRCAM Forum (New York), NYU Abu Dhabi, Qasr Al Hosn (Abu Dhabi), the London Design Biennale, and more recently at the Jameel Arts Center, and MiZa (Abu Dhabi). Safeya has also done sound for live performance and moving image, such as Re|sound V at the Sharjah Arts Foundation (2020) and has collaborated in various soundscape projects, one of which was recently presented at the UAE programming of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2022). She was recently part of the second cohort of Numoo 2023, an Artist Development Initiative for UAE based creatives by the NYUAD Arts Center, and performed at the opening night of Festival X 2023 (Dubai). 

Currently, Safeya is a Research Assistant under the Kawader Fellowship with the Music and Sound Cultures Research Group at NYU Abu Dhabi, where she also completed her BA in Music with a minor in Interactive Media in 2021. Outside of research and music, she likes to organise gatherings for the sound community in the UAE and is currently working on a zine that focuses on sound art in the UAE across time.