Rabih Mroué

A Non-academic Lecture. As Part Of »lola Arias: My Documents«

MY DOCUMENTS is a programme of lecture performances, where artists from different backgrounds present personal research, a radical experience, a story that secretly obsessed them. For MY DOCUMENTS, Lola Arias invited several artists, from dance, documentary film, installation and performance and theatre to delve into their personal archives.

In this new digital version, the artists will be virtually there, in their new domestic stage, showing their archive on a shared screen with the audience.The audience can see the performance live, make comments and exchange visions and insights afterwards. In times of Corona, let’s infect ourselves with ideas, stories and knowledge. Let’s share our screens for debate, love and social encounters!

In MAKE ME STOP SMOKING, Mroué reconstructs the radical heterogeneous landscape of Lebanon, destroyed by crises and wars, with the aid of countless anonymous and personal documents, videos, photos, newspaper clipping and eyewitness reports. In doing so, he questions the veracity and contingency of the archive documents as much as he negotiates the validity of the reconstructed »reality«. MAKE ME STOP SMOKING by Rabih Mroué was produced by Ashkal Alwan – Beirut, with the support of International short film festival Oberhausen, 2006.