The fourth episode of the special season of Khosh Bosh with Anita focuses on the subtheme The Local Natural and Built Environment from the Evaporating Suns exhibition. I am joined by Mays Albaik and Asma Belhamar and my co-host for this episode, Munira Al Sayegh. In this episode, we discuss the extensive research that was conducted by Mays and Asma for their collaborative commissioned work, Rakkaza, which references a recipe for making a human by 8th century muslim polymath, Jabir Ibn Hayyan. Rakkaza explores the connection between creation and place via studying and recording the planetary relationship to the sun and the repetition of the rotation around it–tune in to hear more about their process and the final work. Mays Albaik’s interdisciplinary visual practice investigates how a sense of placehood is formed, reflected and refracted by that which mediates it – the body, language, and their various intersections. Crystalizing as performance, video, sculpture and installations, her work layers a personal poetics onto the sociopolitics that define our relationship to geography; looking for moments of immediate contact between place, body and language. She holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a B.Arch from the American University of Sharjah. Mays’ early practice developed out of the oral narration of her family’s history, the story of her grandfather’s exile from Palestine, and the winding path through geopolitical and cultural landscapes that led to where she is now; a non-citizen resident of her country of birth. Asma Belhamar (b. Dubai, 1988) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice frequently confronts the visual memory of local landscapes. Through this anchoring theme, she merges architectural and organic elements translating into hybrid materiality. Informed by her interdisciplinary background in art and design, projects range in approach and material to offer a perspective considering the aesthetic and theoretical implications of vernacular architectural practices within the built environment. Asma’s works are largely observational, offering insight into the chronological history of architecture and responding to notions of perspective, time, and spatial memory. Munira Al Sayegh is an independent curator and cultural instigator based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She is the founder of Dirwaza Curatorial Lab, a UAE-based curatorial incubator. She is a published author and prominent public voice in the region, highlighting the importance of grassroots initiatives, narrative reclamation and non-institutional thinking to build regional art movements from the bottom up. This special season of Khosh Bosh consists of four hour-long episodes that discuss the works from the exhibition, Evaporating Suns, in-depth with the artists and curators, as well as a myth library that showcases the different myths that the the KBH.G and Dirwaza teams grew up hearing. The thirteen artists showcased in this exhibition are Maitha Abdalla, Mays Albaik, Fatema Al Fardan, Moza Al Matrooshi, Abdullah Alothman, Farah Al Qasimi, Mashael Alsaie, Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Asma Belhamar, Alaa Edris, Saif Mhaisen, Fatima Uzdenova, and Bu Yousuf. The exhibition is presented by KBH.G in Basel, Switzerland and is curated by Dirwaza Curatorial Lab with the support of Verena Formanek. Presented by Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger I KBH.G. Season sponsored by the Foundry in Downtown Dubai. Music by Ronald Ekore.