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

Some of the persisting questions for me in this project are: What is it to Inhabit? What does one inhabit? And Where can one inhabit?

The ‘Space’ I am interested in is implicated or mapped whenever there is ‘encounter’; whether it is an internal encounter with the self (within the mind or body) or external encounter with the ‘other’ (a person or a place) in a gesture, word, gaze or action. Space for me is generated by communication and exchange.

I repeatedly use the terms ‘embodiment’, ‘locating the self’ ‘performing identity’ which all have a spatial gesture within their terminology.

The project will take place in two different cultural contexts (countries). Lebanon and The Netherlands.
A list of (conceptual) spaces my work will try to map:

The scene(s) that the ‘stand-in’ will perform: In Lebanon my ‘stand-in’ will visit different people, cities and locations. She will be tracing different places of memory and relationship to me and my notion of ‘home’.

The cultural space: that of mine (Lebanon), my stand-in’s (Spain), and our place of residence (The Netherlands).
It is the space of ‘meaning’. With dislocation this space gets a transitional character; or a very frequently used term now, it becomes an ‘in between’ space.

The memory space: a space of the real but not actual, and the ideal without being abstract. A space of fiction and projection. A space of embodiment. A space to inhabit?

The rehearsal space: where rehearsal is not directed towards a perfected finished ‘end’ or product, but is a momentum by itself.

The space of subjectivity and difference: the stage for role playing, doubling, enacting the self and performing ‘identity’.

The space of ‘encounter’: the self as an event that unfolds with encounter, contrary to the self as a subject.


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