Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie are two central voices in today’s international performance scene, known for a multidisciplinary body of work that spans theatre, video, installation, and lecture-performance. Emerging from the post-war artistic and intellectual scene of Lebanon, they are part of a generation of artists deeply engaged with the aftermath of conflict—and with the challenges of thinking, remembering, and speaking in its shadow.
This seminar takes place alongside a collaborative scenic project with the artists and offers a space to explore the core themes and strategies in their work. Through screenings, close readings, and group discussion, we will examine how their performances challenge familiar notions of truth, fiction, and documentary in the performing arts, while constantly testing the boundaries of theatrical representation.
Using the concepts of fabricated truths and performed realities as our starting point, we will explore Mroué and Majdalanie’s distinctive methods of working with media imagery, archival material, and autobiographical narratives. Their performances blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, the past and the present, documentation and invention—revealing that what we often think of as reality is not fixed, but constructed, framed, and mediated much like fiction.
- Kursleiter/in: Aria Baghestani
- Kursleiter/in: Robin Junicke