JIHAD NIGHTS: THE SACRED STRUGGLE
1st movement – hosted by 100
100 presents Valencia 2.0 w/ Gintė Preisaitė
This evening marks the first movement of Jihad Nights: The Divine Struggle. At its centre is Valencia 2.0 by Tunisian–Danish artist and composer 100.miia (Mia Ghabarou). Originally commissioned for Organ Sound Art Festival 2025, the work was postponed due to illness and now finds its full realisation in this expanded concert setting.
The title Jihad Nights draws from Ghabarou’s recent EP Jihad — using the word in its original meaning of inner struggle or exertion. This idea runs through Valencia 2.0, where voices, systems, and bodies continuously negotiate balance, control, and vulnerability.
Valencia 2.0 is a site-specific audiovisual performance that transforms a choir of repurposed smartphones into a kinetic, polyphonic orchestra — a deconstructed contemporary organ breathing inside the church space. Each phone functions as both i...

JIHAD NIGHTS: THE SACRED STRUGGLE
1st movement – hosted by 100
100 presents Valencia 2.0 w/ Gintė Preisaitė
This evening marks the first movement of Jihad Nights: The Divine Struggle. At its centre is Valencia 2.0 by Tunisian–Danish artist and composer 100.miia (Mia Ghabarou). Originally commissioned for Organ Sound Art Festival 2025, the work was postponed due to illness and now finds its full realisation in this expanded concert setting.
The title Jihad Nights draws from Ghabarou’s recent EP Jihad — using the word in its original meaning of inner struggle or exertion. This idea runs through Valencia 2.0, where voices, systems, and bodies continuously negotiate balance, control, and vulnerability.
Valencia 2.0 is a site-specific audiovisual performance that transforms a choir of repurposed smartphones into a kinetic, polyphonic orchestra — a deconstructed contemporary organ breathing inside the church space. Each phone functions as both instrument and performer, weaving fragile melodies that drift in and out of harmony while exposing the emotional and political weight these devices carry in our personal and diasporic lives.
The smartphone ensemble is joined by piano and a live organ performance by Gintė Preisaitė, performing Ghabarou’s composition. Together they form a living system moving between intimacy and excess, humour and protest, devotion and ritual.
The evening also features performances by Francesca Buratelli & Villads Klint, and concludes with a DJ set by Dragongirl.
The commission is kindly supported by Statens Kunstfond...

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