Seeing Double

Ghinwa Yassine

June 1, 8 PM Ticket
June 2, 7 PM Ticket

Tangente
Espace Vert

60 min
English

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 between humor 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.

Content Warning
Psychological violence
Themes of war
Sexual themes
This performance is aimed at an adult audience.
About Ghinwa Yassine
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.