The Consortium Commissions
We are happy to announce that Alia Hamdan will be presenting her project, The body is here, off screen, at Kaaitheater in Brussels, as part of the third edition of Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions 2023/2025.
Alia Hamdan
The body is here, off screen
April 9 & 10, 2025 at 8:30pm
Kaaistudios
Alia’s performance, The body is here, off screen, explores how the port explosion “froze” time in Beirut in 2020, and the effect it had on the bodies of its residents. Through video and sound fragments, rhythms, invisible events, or technical effects such as looping, Alia captures the unfolding decay. A first iteration of this performance took place at Alkantara Festival in Lisbon in November 2024. You can read more about Alia’s work and the performance at Kaaitheater here.
Alia Hamdan (b. 1979) is a researcher in aesthetic politics and a dance practitioner born in Beirut. Her research and dance interests involve the encounters between regimes of images, choreographic modes of thinking, and politics. In the last 10 years, Alia taught several courses on dance theory and art history in Beirut at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts and Université Saint-Joseph, while also producing dance and lecture performances, such as Someday at BIPOD in Beirut (2022) and Dancers, October 17 at Zokak in Beirut (2021). In 2022, she participated in the residency at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, and in 2023, at Schloss Academy in Stuttgart.