The collaborative sound, video performance will stage and record new sequences in real time with Abboud’s sisters, nieces, and cousins in costume, informed by Lebanese Maronite mourning gestures, exploring how movement and stillness can carry ritual into contemporary action. Creating a parallel juxtaposition emphasising fragmentation, repetition, and interruption, echoing the distortions of sound and sight and the fractured nature of memory.
Credits
Mum
Louris Abboud
Sisters
Marian Abboud
Susan Abboud
Carol Abboud Wheeler
Georgina Abboud-Azar
Angela Abboud – Liufau
Nieces
Zara Abboud-Azar
Elliana Abboud
Amelia Abboud
Marcella Abboud
Evangeline Abboud-Liufau
Vaiana Abboud-Liufau
First cousins
Sonia Kassis
Rania Homsi
Claudia Homsi
Mariam Abboud
Dramaturg
Lux Eterna
Musicians
Catherine Azzi, cello
Faith Chaza, analogue synthesizer
Costume designer
Melanie Gillbank
Producer Performance
Samia Sayed
