A body, a woman, an absence, a presence. I show you all the ways I could disappear, perhaps then, you’ll see me appear.
A Woman Appears, a Woman Disappears is a semi-autobiographical solo performance about bodies, protest, war, and gender. It’s an attempt to reinsert the body of women into the historical Lebanese narrative from which it’s been continuously erased by seeking an agentic gesture, one in which a body is acting and not being subjected to. A Woman Appears, a Woman Disappears uses archival material and reenactments of protest gestures from the October 2019 uprisings in Lebanon to reclaim what Judith Butler calls “the right to have rights.”
Animation and technical assistance by Conor Provenzano.
Ghinwa Yassine is thankful for the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
