Chicken Scribbles & The Dove That Looks Like A Frog (2017)

Lecture Performance ~45min


Chicken Scribbles and the Dove that Looks like a Frog is a lecture performance on art and political histories centered around Palestine in the 1970’s. A narrative weaves fictive realities to question representation, nostalgia and hegemonic discourses surrounding Arab and Western art of this era. Inspired by a conversation with artist Mhanna Durra, who offhandedly critiques the symbols of ‘politically engaged art’,  through the surreal creature of a pigeon that looks like a frog; the performance subjectively confronts this romantic era with its failures.


Artistic direction: Laurent Van Lanker (in the framework of Sound Image culture). Supported by Moussem

Video link https://vimeo.com/229880493

Presented in Beurschouwburg theater, and BREW in 2017 Brussels, and the Mosaic Rooms in London in 2018.

Reviews: https://thearabweekly.com/london-show-offers-playful-look-palestinian-art-and-politics
PDF Download: https://www.academia.edu/107467972/Chicken_Scribbles_and_the_Dove_that_Looks_Like_a_Frog