Real name: Nadia Buyse

DUBAIS is the Lo-Fi Arab-futurist band from visual artist Nadia Buyse. Nadia has been in several bands, collaborating with many artists and musicians in various capacities

This band began as the Adrian Piper Cover Band, where Nadia would do “pop covers” of text excerpts from Adrian Piper’s seminal video installation Cornered. It mutated into DUBAIS during an art residency where the first song STEP BACK was written and recorded with a cellphone, inside of a video feedback loop, in a bathroom.

Hometown: Portland// Berlin//Antwerp