Actions Against an Apocalyptic Future
Homage to activists who re-imagine the future.
They Knew
A public installation addressing the Lebanese Economic Collapse of 2020.
Memory of Birds
A guided somatic experience in collaboration with trees, migrating birds, and a trauma therapist.
Common Ground: An International Festival on the Politics of Land and Food
Lavender Man
A recorded video conversation between two collaborators occurring post the COVID-19 pandemic and the Beirut Explosion.
Cultural Exchange Rate
The artist shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria, valueless currency collection, and brief migration to Mexico.
As Far As Isolation Goes
This One-On-One performance is a sequel to As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, exploring mental health and the isolation of refugees after reaching Europe.
Where No Wall Remains: An International Festival About Borders
They say there is a window from one heart to another. How can there be a window where no wall remains? —Rumi, from Thief of Sleep Where No Wall Remains is the third edition of the Live Arts Bard (LAB) Biennial, a festival of commissioned works that temporarily reconfigures the Fisher Center as a site for innovative and interactive performances and installations. The first edition, The House Is Open (2014), explored the relationship between visual and performing arts; the second, We’re Watching (2017), examined contemporary states of surveillance. We started planning the third edition in January 2017, in the week that the Trump administration’s “Muslim ban” came into effect, accompanied by increasingly xenophobic rhetoric and the specter of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. It was inevitable that the current edition would focus on the subject of borders. November 2019, the month of the festival, marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin […]
The Search for Power
An artist and a historian venture to understand the history of power outages in Lebanon on the night of their wedding. They reach back to 1906 visiting the archives of five countries.
Tell Me What I Can Do
Thousands of audience letters written during showings of Gardens Speak across five continents are shared in this installation.