Mazen Kerbaj, Lina Majdalanie, and Rabih Mroué: Borborygmus
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Walker Commission
World Premiere
“[Mroué’s] understanding of what it is to be human, in all of its beauty and ugliness, burns through with an intensity that, despite—or because of—its theatricality, hits the viewer directly in the gut.” —Frieze
Just as Rabih Mroué synthesizes video and audio, acting and projection, art and theater in his performances, so does he interweave history, testimony, and storytelling to destabilize facts and fictions. Born in Beirut, Mroué often draws material for his work from the Lebanese Civil War of the 1990s and contemporary Middle East conflicts. This new dramatic-comic theater piece is created in collaboration with Lebanese actor/writer/director Lina Majdalanie and artist/musician Mazen Kerbaj. Here, the performers’ identities and judgements of one another shift as the taboos, fears, and failures of their lives and countries are laid bare.
Borborygmus is presented in tandem with Mroué’s latest cycle of artworks, Again we are defeated on view in Gallery 2.
In Arabic with English surtitles. Contains adult content.
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FUNDING
Co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center, HAU Hebbel am Ufer/Berlin, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Wiener Festwochen, with support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund. Additional support provided by Producers’ Council members Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David & Leni Moore Family Foundation.
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