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Rabih Mroué: Sand in the Eyes

Performance | Non-Academic Lecture

  • Goethe-Institut New York, New York, NY

  • English
  • Free
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Rabih Mroué, Sand in the Eyes, 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Rabih Mroué, Sand in the Eyes, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Rabih Mroué, Sand in the Eyes, 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Rabih Mroué, Sand in the Eyes, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Rabih Mroué explores the image politics of ISIS videos in contrast with videos shot by drones. Based on research material comprised of recruiting videos secured by the officers of the German Intelligence Services, Mroué asks not only what these videos reveal about their producers or the videos’ capacity document killing, but also questions the politics inherent in dealing with these videos from the point of view of the state and society.


Written and presented by Rabih Mroué
Director: Rabih Mroué
Collaboration Research: Andrea Geißler
Translation to English: Ziad Nawfal
Translation to German: Lisa Wegener
Surtitles: Yvonne Griesel
Assistant: Petra Serhal

Special thanks to: Maria Magdalena Ludewig, Lina Majdalanie and Bilal Khbeiz


Produced by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, as part of the project “100 years of present”, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in Germany.
Co-production with the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

Artist

Rabih Mroué

Rabih Mroué, born in Beirut and lives in Berlin, is a theatre director, actor, visual artist and playwright.

He has created a complex oeuvre spanning different disciplines and formats between theatre, performance and visual arts. He addresses the immediate reality of issues that have been swept under the rug in the current political climate of Lebanon and the region there, relating to the enduring consequences of the Lebanese Civil War and recent political events in his region. He was a fellow at The International Research Center: Interweaving Performance FU/Berlin since 2013-2014.

His works include: Four Walls and a Roof (2024), Hartakāt (2023), Sunny Sunday (2020), Borborygmus (2019), So Little Time (2016), Ode to Joy (2015), Riding on a Cloud (2013), 33 RPM and A Few Seconds (2012), The Inhabitants of Images (2008), Who’s Afraid of Representation (2005), looking for a missing employee (2003) and others.

He has performed and exhibited internationally including dOCUMENTA (13) – Kassel, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo – Madrid, The ICP Triennial and MoMa – New York, Centre Pompidou – Paris, SALT – Istanbul, Reina Sofia, among others.