REFRACTING DIFFICULT PASTS: Temporal Answers and the In-Between

Rabih Mroué, Michal Kobialka

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Abstract

This interview with Lebanese performance artist Mroué focuses on his theatre works and his non-academic lectures - Pixelated Revolution (2011), Riding on a Cloud (2013), and Before Falling Seek the Assistance of Your Cane (2020); and on his gallery installations - Again we are defeated (2018) and Swept Under the Carpet (2022), to interrogate the realities of making art in the present-day Middle East. Mroué discusses how mediatised images of violence and of history need to be critiqued in order for them not to participate in the processes of aestheticising reality. He asks if it is possible to envision aesthetic practices of resistance, which cannot be commodified by the power regimes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationStaging Difficult Pasts
Subtitle of host publicationTransnational Memory, Theatres, and Museums
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages104-119
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781003828266
ISBN (Print)9781032326047
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2023

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Maria M. Delgado, Michal Kobialka and Bryce Lease.

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