On December 8th, 2017 Alserkal Resident Jaret Vadera led a group of ten participants on a curated 25-minute silent experience of Dubai and the World Islands by helicopter.

In this episode of Conversations on the Avenue, Tairone Bastien speaks to Vadera about the beginnings of his project 'hyper/slow' and the experience itself. Find out more: http://bit.ly/2EMurqy

"It has been said that Dubai is a city designed to be seen from above. But who has access to this perspective? And does zooming out provide a sharper focus or create a deeper abstraction? Is it possible to synchronize with a capitalist frequency of time, and then speed it up, in order to slow it down?" - Jaret Vadera