My activities as a cultural practitioner experiment with modes of address and making that might inhabit, on one hand, the welling of an unprecedented revolutionary horizon in Lebanon since 2019 and, on the other, the near total collapse of the economic and social orders, along with the various depressions, depletions and deflations that collapse continues to engender.
I approach much of my work with minimal distinctions between thinking and making, and as an engine to collaborate, make and think with others. With this approach, I seek collective spaces of praxis in order to keep doing what I do with a semblance of meaning, and to continue to inhabit spaces and times of duress, without succumbing to a logic that reduces our struggles to metrics of victory or defeat.
For my PhD, I want to continue to search for adequate registers, practices, and methodologies, to contend with the metamorphic nature of 4 technologies: artificial light, artificial darkness, computation, and law.
A central thread in my work has been the administration of light and darkness as a tool of policing, treating it as a powerful lens that shapes subjectivities and shifts ontologies in modern and contemporary life. Recently, I have extended this research into nightlife, mainly through a cartoon project comprised of found animations, redrawn and re-animated into the semblance of a narrative. Through this project, I want to recount histories of electrification and social constructions of inhabiting the night, namely in Lebanon and Palestine, as well as European and American contexts.




