The Insisting Body traces violence not as a singular event but as a force extending across time, place, and the body itself. Each day, the performer inhabits Berlin’s charged sites where layers of historical and contemporary violence are inscribed, erased, or ignored.
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The Insisting Body: Chor(e)ographies of Erasure and Return
The Insisting Body: Chor(e)ographies of Erasure and Return
This becomes a chorography—from the Greek chōra (place) and graphein (to write)—a writing of places through the body. Through repetition, slowness, and exhaustion, hidden architectures of violence surface. Aligned with lunar cycles, the work refuses capitalist linearity, embracing rhythms of shadow and illumination.
Through spatial choreographies, visual interventions, and embodied cartographies, the project reconfigures histories, mythologies, and migrations, inviting audiences to reflect on their relation to memory, time, and persistence.
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A project by Michael(a) Daoud Dramaturg & Editor: Zain Saleh Video Documentation & PR manager: Layla Shandi Light Designer: Liza Root Photography: Luuk Joseph (all rights ©Michael(a) Daoud) Photo credit: Photo by Luuk Joseph, courtesy of the artist Mentors: Adam Man, Charlotte Bank, Khaled Barakeh Tutor: Nik Haffner
Michael(a) Daoud is an interdisciplinary artist exploring time, space, body, and identity through sculpture, choreography, and performance. With roots in Egypt and Syria, their work critiques dominant narratives of gender and migration, blending fiction and reality into dreamlike environments. Shown internationally, Daoud uses art as activist expression across stages, streets, and installations.
Michael(a) Daoud is an interdisciplinary artist exploring time, space, body, and identity through sculpture, choreography, and performance. With roots in Egypt and Syria, their work critiques dominant narratives of gender and migration, blending fiction and reality into dreamlike environments. Shown internationally, Daoud uses art as activist expression across stages, streets, and installations.
Dates
December 2025
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