How Far Can A Marked Body Go?

Live performance (40 min) including live-streaming, live performance, and projection of animated archival photography.

How Far Can A Marked Body Go? sheds the light on what the bodies of Lebanese women, marked by war and patriarchy, are capable of enacting. In this performance, that is based on the 2019 uprisings in Beirut, Ghinwa Yassine aims to reinsert the body of women into the Lebanese historical narrative by portraying an agentic gesture, one in which a body is acting and not being subjected to. Through an interplay between re-enactment, archival images and animation, she tells a story of using one’s embodied agency in the public arena and asks questions around boundaries, safety, appearance, and disappearance. How Far Can A Marked Body Go? insists on an incompleteness, repetitively shifting between the modes of lecture, performance, and video installation. Ultimately, Yassine is writing a story in space.

Originally performed at VIVO Media Arts and curated by Mandana Mansouri.

Role:
Concept, Writing, Performance, Sound Design, Art Direction

Contributions:
Animation and technical direction: Conor Provenzano and Arman Paxad
 Technical assistance: Elke Dick 
Archival photos by Sam Tarling, Nabil Ismail, and Richard Hall.