World premiere of our second digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Malik Nashad Sharpe (Marikiscrycrycry) and writer Hélène Selam Kleih hosted by Dr. Fintan Walsh (Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre). Mise-en-Crise is a film that considers choreography as both the site and the scenography of hope, performatively carved from crisis and rebellion. Playing with the theatrical concept mise-en-scène,...
An analysis of several musical and literary texts by Mashrou Leila, as sites for negotiating the discursive boundaries of gender construction in the public sphere, and an attempt to frame the work within ongoing conversations about the limits of representation as a mode of political engagement. Hamed Sinno (they/he) is a New York based musician, poet, vocal instructor, and social...
Just because we’re born with a vagina, why accept that our family, society, and state continue treating us as unequal ‘beings’? Why sexual violence, unequal rights, and inequities persist? Why do we need to rethink and re-imagine intersections of gender, caste, class and religion? I plan to reflect on insights from my journey of resisting and interrogating complex politics of...
Header image: At those terrifying frontiers where the existence and disappearance of people fade into each other (part 2), Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas with Tashweesh, Where No Wall Remains, Fisher Center at Bard, Photo by Maria Baranova, 2019
