OFFTA, festival d’arts vivants
Ghinwa Yassine
The OFFTA is a festival dedicated to emerging and avant-garde creation in the live arts. Created on the fringes of the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), the OFFTA showcases creators whose singular and committed approaches lay the groundwork for new artistic currents. The festival aims to decategorize contemporary artistic practices and their respective audiences. It presents and produces events that challenge established norms and question modes of representation, fostering collaboration and collective experiences.
Content Warning
Psychological violence
Themes of war
Sexual themes
This performance is aimed at an adult audience.
Ghinwa Yassine
Seeing Double
This apocalyptic performance takes place in a bed bathed in pastel light. In this soft, cushioned oasis flows the stream of consciousness of a woman traversed by multiple narratives: that of war destroying the village where her family lives in Lebanon, that of a curiosity for extraterrestrial life forms, and that of a human activist, lover, and dreamer. On her body resting in a lycra bodysuit, countless encounters, fantasies and memories overlap in misty layers. The mundane meets the unspeakable, domesticity, sensuality, and horror. Like a lucid dream, Seeing Double navigates with tenderness humour and absurdity, fiction and lived experience. An immersive dive into the coexistence of the intimate and the political, it reveals the reflections that glisten between proximities and distances.
Concept, performance and direction Ghinwa Yassine
Co-creation, dramaturgical consulting and rehearsal direction Aryo Khakpour
Technical direction and sound design Arman Paxad
With the support of The British Columbia Arts Council
Special thanks to Odd Meridian
Video Edwin El Bainou
Ghinwa Yassine is a Lebanese-Canadian anti-disciplinary artist based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her intermedia practice includes film, installation, performance, sound, text, drawing, and sculpture. Drawing on feminist and queer theories, neuroscience, politics and ancient history, she aspires to a radical historicization of individual and collective experiences, where embodied memories manifest through narrative, ritual, and gesture. She is interested in the liminal space between the embodiment of an activist and that of a “Barbie” — in this case, a belly dancer.
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