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NOT, NOT ARAB. IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CORPSE. NOT, NOT ARAB.
2019
HD Video / 45’ / Color
Languages: English
HD Video / 45’ / Color
Languages: English
In collaboration with Walid Sadek and Juli Carson, Commissioned by Beirut Lab: 1975(2020)
Not, not Arab. In the Presence of the Corpse. Not, not Arab., gives us a single channel projection of a split-screen, wherein the reader-performer is simultaneously captured at different angles and scales, moving at a quasi-unnoticeable speed via digital zoom in and out. Cinematic split screens denote two different actions, by two different players, happening simultaneously. Here, the split-screen provides a parallax view of one action by one player; a redoubling that defies the ontological binary is/not, and, by extension, then/now and where artist-writer Walid Sadek reads an essay from his book, The Ruin To Come (2016), bracketing the recitation by reading his short essay, Not, not Arab, twice.
Not, not Arab. In the Presence of the Corpse. Not, not Arab., gives us a single channel projection of a split-screen, wherein the reader-performer is simultaneously captured at different angles and scales, moving at a quasi-unnoticeable speed via digital zoom in and out. Cinematic split screens denote two different actions, by two different players, happening simultaneously. Here, the split-screen provides a parallax view of one action by one player; a redoubling that defies the ontological binary is/not, and, by extension, then/now and where artist-writer Walid Sadek reads an essay from his book, The Ruin To Come (2016), bracketing the recitation by reading his short essay, Not, not Arab, twice.