Seeking revenge from the heart of the apocalypse with Tania El Khoury

In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Tania El Khoury. Tania is a live artist based in London and Beirut. Over 15 years she has created a body of  interactive installations and performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Her solo work has been translated into multiple languages and shown in 32 countries. 

She is the recipient of the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award and the Arches Brick Award. She has recently been announced as Distinguished Artist in Residence of Theater and Performance at Bard College in upstate New York.

In this episode Tania talks about how she seeks revenge through her art – for the corruption and crises in Lebanese politics, and for the huge blast on 4th August that destroyed much of the capital, Beirut. She describes her experience of this tragedy and how the trauma of being born and growing up in a civil war has made her who she is. She gives an outsider’s view of the landscape in the UK and reflects on the responsibilities she feels around representation – as a woman of colour, from Lebanon.
 
 Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.
 
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To read more about Tania’s work visit https://taniaelkhoury.com/ and https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/profiles/tania-el-khoury/

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 Edited by Marcin Pawlik with additional recording support from Mike Palmer
 Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem
 
Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.