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title>REHEARSING AN ABSENCE/ A PRESENCE OF A CULTURAL BODY
author>Lina Issa

This project started and got transformed within specific political circumstances that will remain an implicit and permeating fact in the whole project.

As a student from Lebanon, I have been denied my residence permit in The Netherlands for strictly bureaucratic reasons. As I appealed against their decision, I am not allowed to leave The Netherlands and be able to re-enter.

This decision created a ‘state of exception’ that consequently generated new decisions within my projects and demanded a re-questioning of my position as a ‘resident’- ‘artist’- ‘individual’ here in The Netherlands.

My project is framed within a translation of this state of exception into a narrative of exchange between two women (me and my stand-in) producing their differences. It is not only ‘subjective differences’ that we will exchange, but also the fact of inhabiting two extremely different political spaces.

Thus we will be in a border-space of exchange and continuously produced difference that is underpinned by this ‘state of exception’.

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