An encounter for one person through a wall, part of Under the Radar 2019
When: January 4–13
Where: The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place)
New York, NY 10003
Price: $25–30 [SOLD OUT]
Tags: #intimate, #one-on-one, #headphoneplay, #interactive, #ContactAdvisory, #ContentAdvisory (see below)
Our fingertips facilitate touch and sensations, but are also used by authorities to track many of us. In today’s Europe, a refugee’s journey can be set as far as their fingertips take them. The Dublin Regulation mandated a fingerprinting database across Europe for all refugees and migrants. This regulation often means that a refugee is sent back to where their fingertips were first recorded, without any regard to their needs, desires, or plans.
The refugee will mark the audience by drawing on their arm. The marking can be kept or washed away.
Tania El Khoury commissioned musician and street artist Basel Zaraa who was born a Palestinian refugee in Syria to record a rap song inspired by the journey his sisters made from Damascus to Sweden. Through touch and sound, this intimate encounter explores empathy and whether we need to literally “feel” a refugee in order to understand the effect of border discrimination on peoples’ lives.
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Contact Level: Light (Business/Acquaintance) to Moderate (Familial), as performer will be drawing on the participant’s arm.
Content Advisories: Discussion of refugee stories, discrimination, etc.
All seating is ADA wheelchair accessible.
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