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Combining 16mm footage of a staged dance of two men, and documentary SD footage (pre –wedding celebration in Palestine), the work highlights the affinities and tensions between performativity and performance. – One of a staged choreography, the other of one culturally embodied, while the third develops through editing. The film focuses on ‘dance’ as a social construct, in a wider examination of notions of Choreography and the imaginary relationship of individuals; a model of relations that are loosely bound together by a process of modernisation, technological rationalisation and cultural contradictions. It further examines how the political unconscious can be revealed through symbolic acts, particularly practices of movement and choreography. – Mainly through the relational: intervals between movements; these acts don’t seek to prove their strength or existence. They seem to reveal their weakness and negotiate with their surroundings- touching fragility in one’s self and therefore, a sense of fragility in the social structure that is usually denied.

Noor Abed (b.1988 Jerusalem) attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York 2015-16, and HWP Home Works Program – Ashkal Alwan in Beirut 2016- 17. She received her BA from the International Academy of Arts -Palestine, and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. She was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine 2014. A finalist and joint third prizewinner in 2014 Young Artist Award, she has been awarded the March Project residency and commission from Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE 2016, and a residency grant at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, 2018.