Artists
Rabih Mroué
- Born 1967 in Beirut, Lebanon.
- Based in Berlin, Germany.
Performances
For the past 30 years, Berlin-based Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué has been creating performances that criticize the confusion and historical vacuum of today’s Middle Eastern Arab world. His works, which take place on the boundaries between fiction and truth, communal history and personal anecdote, continue to attract the attention of major museums, festivals and theaters around the world. In 2004, Mroué staged the first of six performances in Japan so far.
In response to Aichi Triennale 2022’s theme “STILL ALIVE,” Mroué performs an updated version of his 17-year old masterpiece Who’s Afraid of Representation? (2005), a dissection of the history of performance art. Summoning self-mutilating actions from the body art movement that flourished in the 1960s and ‘70s side-by-side on stage with actual murder cases that took place in Beirut, Mroué offers opposition against art histories and conceptualizations based on exclusively Western perspectives.
- Selected Works & Awards
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- 2019
- Borborygmus, Home Works Forum 8, Beirut, Lebanon
- 2012
- dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
- 2009
- Photo-Romance, Festival d’Avignon, Avignon, France
- 2007
- How Nancy Wished That Everything What happened to April Fool’s Joke, Tokyo International Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
- 2002
- Biokhraphia, Beirut, Lebanon
Performances
Who’s Afraid of Representation?
THEATER
- Who’s Afraid of Representation?, 2005
- Photo: Houssam Mchaiemch
- Venue
- Mini Theater, Aichi Prefectural Art Theater (B1)
- Access
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- 5 minutes on foot from Sakae Station on the Higashiyama Subway Line or Meijo Subway Line.
- 5 minutes on foot from Sakae-Machi Station on the Meitetsu Seto Line.
- Performance brochure
- Available after the performance
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- Photo: Houssam Mchaiemch
- Photo: Houssam Mchaiemch