Comissioned by Firstdraft and presented at HOBIENNALE 2019
Sister ++++++ Familial Formations
Marian Abboud
Thursday 21 November, 8.30pm Moonah Arts Centre
Moonah Arts Centre, 23-27 Albert Road, Moonah
Friday 22 November, 7pm, Visual Bulk Hobart
Visual Bulk 153A Argyle Street, Hobart
Marian Abboud’s Sister ++++++ Familial Formations is a group video performance held over two nights of the festival in different venues. A sister in a female-dominant family, Abboud draws on personal narratives, collective memory, textured identity, stylised ritual, gendered performativity and emotional symbolism. Her work brings together personal and cultural mythologies to create a collective action through ritual, memory and magic. Sister ++++++ Familial Formations will create new narratives of familial and cultural folklore to hold the space between us. The performance transcends place, generation, language and identity.
Media player partner Lupa.