JAHIMU S-SUWARI – a poetry performance
Elie Mouhanna & Anthony Sahyoun (Beirut)
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European Premiere
In JAHIMU S-SUWARI [eng. “The Hell of Images”], Lebanese artist Elie Mouhanna and musician and sound designer Anthony Sahyoun interrogate the power of images in a world where visual overload is the norm. Their performance depicts a reality in which images no longer serve as a form of orientation, but instead trigger a sense of destabilisation and uncertainty. The performance is based on texts composed by Elie Mouhanna, who develops his own unique formal language that combines dance and text into a poetically unified mode of communication. Oscillating between sound and speech, introspection and collective memory, a fragile composition emerges that explores issues of identity, corpo-reality, and how we perceive – and, hence, experience – the world. The culmination is the “Atlas of Terrific Images: For the Lovers of the marvelous and the sublime”, a collection of images that connects seemingly unrelated events in a broader visual context. This performance is an invitation to seek out new meanings and understandings in a world in which we are constantly subjected to visual overload.
Biography
Elie Mouhanna is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who primarily works with text, images, and textiles, as well as with movement and voice. His works span installation and performance, and primarily explore the relationship between language and identity. He currently works as an adjunct assistant professor at the Lebanese American University, where his areas of research include anthropology, psychoanalytical theory, linguistics, and technology as religion.
Lebanese composer, musician, and programmer Anthony Sahyoun is also known under the pseudonym Mme Chandelier and was a co-founder of the Kinematik ensemble, with whom he produced three albums. Anthony Sahyoun is passionate about electronic and experimental music and released his second solo album PROOF BY INFINITE DESCENT in 2021. Alongside performances with renowned artists such as Hans Joachim Irmler from Faust, he is also a producer and sound engineer as part of Tunefork Studios. He has composed music for films, including the documentary DANCING ON THE EDGE OF A VOLCANO (2023).
Cast
Text
Elie Mouhanna
Sound & music
Anthony Sahyoun
Production
Elie Mouhanna | Anthony Sahyoun
Info
For the programme BIRDS ON PERIPHERIES, a reduced ticket price applies when attending at least three events: each ticket then costs only 5 € per performance.
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Production & Realization
Supported by
Oakenhouse (Byblos) | Beirut Art Center | Tunefork Studios
With the kind support of the Goethe-Institut Munich.
