Behind Your Eyeballs

by Salma Said & Miriam Coretta Schulte

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How can an archive come alive? Can it become a portal to propel us to new futures? 


Through a game of friendship and performance, Salma Said and Miriam Coretta Schulte take us on a journey to their own futuristic video world. Dwelling between video projections and car tires in a space designed by artist Jasmina Metwaly, they explore the subversive video archive 858, a testimony of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, confronting its potential to that of choreographic mnemonic techniques. Guided by the sounds of musician Leila Moon, the audience departs on a journey through time and space, while new visitors share their archival practice on stage every evening.



> About Miriam Coretta Schulte 


Miriam Coretta Schulte, 1987, is a theater maker and performer. She grew up in Frankfurt and studied Performance Studies and Theater Direction in Germany and France, before dividing her time between Switzerland and Egypt. Schulte develops performative settings, lectures and workshops both on and offstage, often collaborating with dancers and choreographers to examine the potential and powerlessness of bodies and their fictions.  Both fascinated by the way we consider the usefulness of bodies and determined to rediscover their lost capabilities, she co-developed “Hack-No-Tech”, a dance technique used to store information in the body through muscle memory.


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> About Salma Said


Salma Said (Cairo/EGY) (*1985) likes to juggle between performance & media art, activism, and research. She studied literature, film and cultural anthropology focusing on gender and activism in Egypt. In 2011, Salma co-founded Mosireen, a non-profit media collective that has released (in 2018) the largest video archive of the Egyptian revolution, "The 858, Archive of Resistance". Salma has been involved in various film and theater projects as a writer and performer including: Fiction film “Rabie 89” (2010) directed by Ayten Amin, theatre performance “Lessons in Revolting”  (2011) directed by Laila Soliman and “rosa & louise -a feminist manifest” (2018) directed by Ariane Koch & Sarina Scheidegger. Most recently, the theater performance Behind Your Eyeballs (2021) co-created by Miriam Coretta Schulte and the short film “When in Berlin” (2021) directed by Sondos Shabayek. Salma and Miriam are currently working on an artistic research and performance on the topic of asylum law.

Practical information

Saturday 24 September 2022 at 7pm and Sunday 25 September at 3.30pm at El Teatro - Tunis


Language: English, French and Arabic

Duration

About 100 min.

Price information

5 TND

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