Video readings and performances submitted for Shoebox #6 — Hardcore
Alice Harrling – The Primitive Acts of Insanity
Alice Harrling is an artist and writer based in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Primitive Acts of Insanity is an unfinished draft of an unfinished text built on an unfinished idea.
Hadži Aleksandar Columby-Micić — Smelling Each Other’s Insides Hadži Aleksandar Columby-Micić is a perfumer and multimedia artist based in Prague and Belgrade. He graduated cum laude from Charles University in Arabic Studies before continuing his postgraduate
Arabic studies at the CASA program at The American University in Cairo. Alongside his studies, he has developed an artistic practice across music, scent, film and writing, releasing an EP in the summer of 2025.
Since 2021, he has studied perfume composition and built his perfume house Aleks Parfumy, which released its first official collection, Aleks Parfumy WORLD in 2025. He is currently in Prague preparing the upcoming Prague Atelier Series collection.
During his time in Cairo, he worked on various documentary film projects and explored cultural diplomacy through an internship at Czech Center Cairo. He has also published shorter pieces of writing, including the essay Threads of Scent: Invisible Placemakers, An Olfactive Journey Through Cairo, which will appear in the Italian magazine Tamarindo.
Ahmed Shehata – A Declaration
Ahmed Shehata is a poet based in Alexandria, Egypt, whose work explores raw emotion and the vulnerability of the self. Creating a lush emotional landscape, his poetry builds a sanctuary out of unapologetic devotion.