Alia Hamdan, The body is here, off screen, 2024. Photo by Maissa Maatouk.

The Consortium Commissions

We are happy to announce that Alia Hamdan will be presenting her project, The body is here, off screen, at Alkantara Festival in Lisbon, as part of the third edition of Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions 2023/2025.

Alia Hamdan
The body is here, off screen
On November 19 & 20, 2024 at 7pm
Alkantara Festival

Alia Hamdan’s performance, The body is here, off screen, explores the freezing of time following the Beirut port explosion in 2020, where a young woman is injured and goes into a coma. The performance traces the experience of her mother made worse by the current Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Throughout, Alia addresses the shift in Lebanese politics towards a state of status quo, collapse, and entropic degradation. You can read more about Alia’s project at Alkantara Festival here.