In this performance, we explore the retelling of violent encounters as women to transform them into our own narratives, where we commune with each other through the interweaving of experience, always addressed by the word. Hence, our work focuses on the role of the word as an enabling site of transformation with the potentiality to encapsulate the inherent violence present in language, which inevitably addresses the body given its societal nature, while at the same time being a tool to heal and gain agency. We aim for the reification of these experiences through poetry and music in a ‘circular’ encounter where violence, potentiality and transformation are in constant conversation, feeding from each other in a non-linear manner.
Farah Hijazi, Estela Gonzalez, Oliver Roldan
Letting Go - In the Cracks of my Lips
2023
About the artist
Farah is interested in exploring concepts concerning self-other relations and their interaction with the environment. For her Master’s thesis, she focused on analysing interdisciplinary media art installations, collaborative efforts between the brain sciences and the arts, that are shaped around one-on-one interactions in an exploration of notions of empathy. In her practice, she likes to experiment with different mediums and tools. Currently she is focusing on sound, spoken word and developing her skills in audio engineering.
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