HW7 Performance: Deus Ex Machina by Lynn Kodeih

Theatre performance HW7 Home Works 7 Ashkal Alwan Deus Ex Machina Lynn Kodeih

Deus Ex Machina reflects on the current historical moment: the persistence of life in the aftermath of the violent conflict at the dawn of a new era. The work constructs figurative and abstract associations of love and loss, cycles of life and death, maternalism and nature – as an eminence of a protracted apocalypse, in order to speculate on the future of humanity.

Video performance, 45’, 2015

Written, directed and performed by: Lynn Kodeih. Music: Rami El Sabbagh.Videography: Malak Mroueh, Pamela Ghanimeh, Koussay Hamzeh. Video editing: Marwan Hamdan. Sound design: Victor Bress. Set Design Adviser: Nadim Deaibes. Production: Ashkal Alwan (Beirut) in the context of Home Works 7.

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Ashkal Alwan

Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts is a non-profit organization based in Beirut. Since its founding in 1993, Ashkal Alwan has dedicated itself to promoting contemporary artistic practice, fostering critical thinking around social realities, and engaging in community mobilization.

The organization aims to create networks of exchange between practitioners and institutions, archive cultural endeavours, provide artists support and resources for the development of their work, rethink arts education and interdisciplinary modes of knowledge production, and support civic and political initiatives.

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Ashkal Alwan

Beirut, Lebanon