Fugacious Presence: A Collective Performance

Fugacious Presence | Concept by Ilse Frech

A Collective Performance



“Many are the terrible wonders , but none rises up more terrible than man.”



Ilse Frech is presently exploring the theme of war and memory related to Lebanon’s history and the carriers of its trauma - embodied by objects, the city as part of the landscape, and the human body as such. Fugacious Presence is a live-poem in the form an audiovisual composition being written at the very moment. The performing group acts as a collective body in a rhythmic concatenation of images, words, and sound, in joint alliance or opposition to one another. A vivid image of memory in transition emerges, yet awaiting to capture and grasp a voice or a body to be expressed in the present. Memory is as much a filmic montage as chance is a perpetual poem of the rise and collision of a projected presence and a possible future.



Performers: Daniel Balabane, Mirna Boyadjian, Tony Elieh, Rawad Kanj, Sarah Athina Nahas, Elizabeth Srour-Kanj



Movement Coach: Amelie Murdock

Wardrobe: Raya Kazoun



Special thanks to: Nadim Deaibes, Rayan Al Nihawi, Sara Sehnaoui, Yuri Veerman, Marc Codsi, Salam Shokor, Jad Shokor, Ali Younes, Yara Boustany, Rudy Nacouzi

 

Ilse Frech (1972, Amsterdam) is a visual artist, documentary photographer and filmmaker. She studied Photography from 1990-94 at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Architecture and Music in The Hague (KABK). In 2013 she earned a Master’s degree from the University of Art and Design, HEAD-Geneva (Switzerland) in Fine Arts and Contemporary Artistic Practices, major Visual Arts – program Work.Master (2011-13). Identity related to political heritage, myth, memory and trauma embody her practice since 1999. Her residency at Ashkal Alwan is in affiliation with and supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, the Netherlands.