ABSTRACT
Egyptian Chemistry has involved making a radical break with long-term investigation of migratory systems. A crucial instrument in the investigation has been feminist theory, deeply influenced by postcolonial and race theory, which introduced the notion of performativity as a way to rethink the production of differences and boundaries, both in terms of identity and geography. Egyptian Chemistry explores the hybrid water ecologies of Egypt, and the Nile in particular, to probe transformations that take place from within. Meta-chemistry grasps the turbulent instance of physical and epistemic change and propels into a slightly altered dimension that can only be invoked mythically through space travel, time barriers and the inter-biospheric mobility of species. Sahara Chronicle, on the contrary, is a video cartography project that maps the correlation between economic factors, historical conditions, spatial and epistemological practices, cultural specificities and ecological developments, all of which play into this particular kind of mobility in the Sahara.
