The opening concert will begin with a performance by Bint Mbareh, a Palestinian musician and researcher who studies ritual songs used to summon rain. Working at the intersection of improvisational, electronic, and traditional music, she creates sonic collages from fragments of archival recordings, poetry, and song, often accompanying herself on the buzuq — a plucked string instrument popular across West Asia. It will conclude with the world premiere of a new composition by Mieko Shiomi — a cult Japanese composer and living legend of conceptual music, who has collaborated with John Cage, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and other key figures of the 20th-century avant-garde responsible for shaping new directions in musical art. Her new piece, The Rite of Wind and Shadow, is an experimental sonic performance score commissioned by the Triennale. Its premiere will take place at Tselinny and will be presented in three versions over the first three days. The first performance will be prepared by Samrat Irzhasov — one of the most prominent artists of Kazakhstan’s new indie scene, known for the project SAMRATTAMA — and Nurbäk Batulla, a choreographer and dance artist from Kazan, a laureate of theater awards who works with the Tatar language and Turkic culture.