Reading | Can we just cuddle and sleep by Roy Dib

A reading of Can we just cuddle and sleep by Roy Dib

Date: April 8, 2025

Location: Ashkal Alwan Space

Reading times: 7PM & 8.30PM

Duration: Approximately 45 minutes

This story was written to be experienced through listening rather than reading.

A collective listening, in public and not in private.

Through this experience, each listener realizes that the intimacy of the story has other witnesses who are also listening and interacting with the narrative in a public space.

In a nutshell, it highlights the difference between committing an intimate act individually or collectively / in private or in public.

Does intimacy turn into an immoral act? Does the repetition of this immoral act lead to normalization or celebration?

This reading performance follows Dib’s solo show, Traces, held between February 26 and April 3, 2025 at Galerie Tanit.

Image: Can we just cuddle and sleep, 2025. Still from video. Roy Dib. Courtesy of the artist.