Basel Documentary Platform 15
Theatre | Dance | Symposium
17th – 21st April 2013
Conceived by Boris Nikitin
Rabih Mroué:
The Pixelated Revolution
“Syrians are filming their own death” – so begins Rabih Mroué’s lecture performance, in which he shows images of people caught up in the Syrian civil war capturing their own murder on camera. Mroué examines these visual documents, which were shared on social media during the first year of the Syrian revolution, in order to look at the use of social media in the context of the Syrian uprisings and consider the relationship between this act of photographic documentation and death, as well as how we view and record such videos today. Alongside this performance, The Pixelated Revolution also features a number of Mroué’s installations and video works.
Swiss Premiere
Fri April 19th, 9:00pm, Artist Talk after the show
Kaserne Basel, Rossstall
Lecture Performance in English
Duration: 1 hour
Lebanon
By and with: Rabih Mroué
Translation in English: Ziad Nawfal
Coproduction: Berlin Documentary Forum – HKW/Berlin, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, 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) Rabih Mroué would like to thank: Lina Saneh, Tony Chakar, Sarmad Louis, Hito Steyerl, Elia Suleiman, Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, Walid Raad, Bilal Khbeiz, Yousef Tohme, Paul Khodr, Christine Tohme, Manal Khader, Ziad Nawfal, Bernard Khoury, Stefan Tarnowski, Raseel Hadjian and Jowe Harfouche. Also thanks to Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Art Center and Kalamon, Beirut.
Foto: Ernesto Donegana