Ongoing Thought
With the director Rabih Mroué and the performers Lina Majdalanie and Yasser Mroué. Mediation Pollyanna Diniz (USP)
March 16th, from 10am to 12am | Venue: Itaú Cultural
Crossing Dialogues
With Reginaldo Nasser
March 15th after the performance | Venue: Sesc Vila Mariana
Synopsis
“Syrians are filming their own death”, that is how the Pixelated Revolution begins, aiming to study the employment of mobile phone and social media during the first years of the Syrian revolution. Rabih Mroué examines the use of photos and videos to mobilize and inform people during the war, and the ability to make those media go viral. The lebanese artist looks at how the Syrians record those images live, connecting the act of registering with the issue of death. It also deals with how we absorb these testimonies.
History
The work of the Lebanese Rabih Mroué, actor, playwright and visual artist, born in Beirut in 1967, lies at the frontiers of theater, performance and video. He is known for his subtle deconstruction of images. In his work, they become narratives of contradictions. He reveals them to the audience layer by layer, creating moving reflections of our world that blur the lines between fiction and documentary, between imagination and manipulation.
The conflicts in the Middle East of the last decades, especially in Lebanon, serve as material to the artist. In the film Je veux voir (2008) by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rabih has met with Catherine Deneuve in Beirut and drove through areas devastated by the conflict. Rabih Mroué currently resides in Berlin. He is co-founder of the Beirut Art Center; a contributing editor of TDR: The Drama Review (NYC); and theater director at Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich). He was a member of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” / Freie Universität in Berlin in the years of 2013 and 2014.
Credits
Performer: Rabih Mroué
Text English version: Ziad Nawfal
Text Portuguese version: Patrícia Lopes
Local producer: Ricardo Frayha
Local technical team: Julio Cesarini, Rodrigo Campos, Rodolfo Jaquetto, Mariana Mastrocola, Fernando Zimollo
Co-produced by: Berlin Documentary Forum – HKW/ Berlin, DOCUMENTA 13, Kassel,The 2010 Spalding gray Award (Performing Space 122 in New York, The Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburg, On the Boards in Seattle and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis).
