Rabih Mroué
(Berlin)
Before Falling Seek the Assistance of Your Cane
Location: Sommerbau am Kaiserlei (Offenbach)
Lecture-Performance
- 02.09.2021, 9 p.m.solidarity pricing system (you choose): from 5 € per single seat/pit, from 10 € per box/double seat
- 03.09.2021, 9 p.m.solidarity pricing system (you choose): from 5 € per single seat/pit, from 10 € per box/double seat, Artist Talk afterwards
A poster at the Kunstverein in Salzburg warns of an air raid. A passer-by sees it and calls the police. They view it as an immediate threat and start to evacuate the building. But the poster is actually part of an exhibition by the media and performance artist Rabih Mroué. It reproduces a leaflet dropped over Iraq by the US Army to give notice of immanent bombing – a practice as common as it is cynical, of providing a warning before an air raid. In his non-academic lecture “Before Falling Seek the Assistance of Your Cane” Rabih Mroué uses the events in Salzburg as an example to raise questions about the relationship between art and public life. How can an art object be turned into an object of threat? He masterfully combines aesthetic questions with social and political realities and investigates how images and stories can be constructed and instrumentalised as fiction and reality merge.
Please find an english ticketing guideline here (the system is only in german)
Duration: 50 Min.
Language: English (with English surtitles)
03.09. Artist Talk afterwards
Admission ending: 15 min. before the start of the show
The price is per seat. At the time of booking, the two double seats must be bookedseparately. It is possible to book entire lodges with two double seats or single seats on the parquet floor.
Admission is only possible with proof of negative Corona status (tested, vaccinated or recovered). Results of a test may not be more than 24 hours old at this event.
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Cast & Credits
This work has been developed during the artist’s fellowship at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin, presented within the frame of “This Is Not Lebanon. Festival for Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Talks” a cooperation project of the Frankfurt LAB with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Ensemble Modern in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Lebanon, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Ensemble Modern Patronatsgesellschaft e.V. The discourse programme is supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb). The residencies within the framework of “This Is Not Lebanon. Festival for Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Talks” are part of “Frankfurt Moves!”, a cooperation of the KfW Stiftung and the Frankfurt LAB to promote international emerging artists in the field of dance and performing arts.
Biography
Rabih Mroué
(*1967, Beirut, Libanon) ist Regisseur, Schauspieler, bildender Künstler und Autor. Vom Theater kommend, beinhalten seine Arbeiten Video und Installationen Wie kein anderer hat er die Performance- und Kunstszene des Libanons in den letzten Jahrzehnten geprägt. Er hat zusammen mit Walid Raad die Lecture Performance von der Wissenschaft befreit und zu einer Kunstform gemacht. Er ist Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift „The Drama Review” (New York) und Mitbegründer des Beirut Art Center (BAC). An den Kammerspielen München arbeitete er bis Sommer 2020 regelmäßig als Regisseur. Bühnenarbeiten und Ausstellungen Mroués waren u.a. bei der dOCUMENTA (13) im Jahr 2012, beim Festival d‘Avignon und im MoMA (New York) bei der Triennial of Photography and Video, am International Center of Photography (New York) und am Centre Pompidou (Paris), zu sehen. Rabih Mroué lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Am Mousonturm waren zuletzt seine Arbeiten „Riding on a cloud” (2015), „Videoworks” (2015), „Rima Kamel” (2017), Photo-Romance (2017) und „Borborygmus“ (2019) zu sehen. Er ist Mitkurator von „This Is Not Lebanon. Festival for Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Talks”.
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