In a time of globalization, Internet and virtuality, she tackles the place of the body – both direct experience and representation – public space and political speech. Through these questions, it is theatre practice itself she challenges.

« Some artistic practices and some discourses about these forms of practices stress the body, the action, the presence, the here and now. Does this mean that other practices and discourses rely on speech, absence, distance and media coverage? Are these terms actually radically different? How to disturb this dichotomy? What is the point of having dual binarities? How and in what time-space can they be together? »

In this workshop - intentionally composed of heterogeneous artists -, these issues, which are often given as contrary, opposite or in conflict, will be addressed; issues that affect art everywhere, but also highly political issues that affect us all and which will be here discussed mainly on the basis of Lebanese artists.

« From art to politics, from the practice of Lebanese artists to predominantly ‘Western’ theoretical, artistic and philosophical references, it is the links and contradictions that interest us rather than cultural or disciplinary differences... »