Residencies

• 15.06 > 20.06.2026

I always wan­ted to be a revo­lu­ti­o­na­ry woman when I grew up.
On a sleepless night, I joi­ned my father in the living room. He was wat­ching what I have sin­ce iden­ti­fied as a docu­men­ta­ry about Palestinian women free­dom figh­ters who had been impriso­ned for their acts of resis­tan­ce. What I remem­ber, howe­ver, is that they were descri­bed as ​“revo­lu­ti­o­na­ry women.”
So I wan­ted to beco­me a revo­lu­ti­o­na­ry woman myself when I grew up.
I kept it secret, though, pro­ba­bly becau­se I thought I would end up in pri­son. Instead, whe­ne­ver I was asked what I wan­ted to be when I grew up, I would reply:
a fire­figh­ter.

excerpt from the script of we dreamt of uto­pia and we woke up screa­ming. Episode 1. La radio des ima­ges qui s’écoutent (2016-), a per­for­man­ce by Yasmina Reggad

Live. Once More cre­a­tes con­di­ti­ons for encoun­ters bet­ween women from across the SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) regi­on who never met: revo­lu­ti­o­na­ries, priso­ners, mothers, sis­ters, poets, mili­tants, heroi­nes, or fic­ti­o­nal charac­ters. Gathered beyond chro­no­lo­gy, geo­grap­hy, and his­to­ri­cal fact, they form a con­stel­la­ti­on of heart­be­ats, voi­ces, gestu­res, and poli­ti­cal imaginaries. 

What con­ver­sa­ti­on could emer­ge bet­ween Muzan Alneel (allah yar­ham­ha) and Saïda Menebhi? Between a Palestinian radio ope­ra­tor trai­ned in Lebanon during the 1980s war and Firdaus, the pro­ta­go­nist of Nawal El Saadawi’s novel Woman at Point Zero?

Bringing together real and fic­ti­o­nal figu­res across time, Live. Once More explo­res how their lives, desi­res, strug­gles, and unre­a­li­zed futu­res might con­ti­nue to reso­na­te in the pre­sent. Through prac­ti­ces of trans­mis­si­on, accu­mu­la­ti­on, repe­ti­ti­on, and embo­di­ment, the work see­ks to reac­ti­va­te unfi­nis­hed pos­si­bi­li­ties and ima­gi­ne new forms of soli­da­ri­ty, poli­ti­cal ima­gi­na­ries, and future-making.