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Chapter 9 - Gestural Archives

Transmission and Embodiment as Translation in Occupied Palestine

from Part II - Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2023

By
Farah Saleh
Edited by
Avishek Ganguly  and
Kélina Gotman
Avishek Ganguly
Affiliation:
Rhode Island School of Design
Kélina Gotman
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Summary

In my practice-based research The Archive of Gestures, I revive an array of gestures and movements present in alternative Palestinian narratives, which were suppressed by Israel and left out of mainstream Palestinian history, by re-enacting, deconstructing and commenting on the gestures and context they were performed in, using interactive video dance installation and participatory performance as artistic and archival forms. In this chapter I analyse four artistic works that resulted from this research: A Fidayee Son in Moscow (2014), Cells of Illegal Education (2016), Gesturing Refugees (2018), What My Body Can/t Remember (2019). In all the works interactivity and participation with the audience play a central role. Here, I explain how moving-thinking together, through re-enacting, transforming and transmitting latent gestural archives, helps embody and translate the stories and their gestures to the audience members’ bodies. This allows the audience to identify with the context of these stories, creating empathy and contributing towards future responsibility.

Keywords

gestureslatent narrativesbodily archivesparticipatory performancetransmissionembodimenttranslationcollective memories
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Performance and Translation in a Global Age , pp. 201 - 226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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