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Norwegian artists at the 2011 Beirut Street Festival

Last updated: 28/09/2011 // The Norwegian artist group MMH/SC/HS are presenting the site specific performance “A perfectly safe hide-out” for the Beirut Street Festival 2011 in Lebanon. Their work draws upon questions and situations inspired by ”real life” conditions, politics, social structures and (hi)stories of society. Combining dance, visual art and music, the project sets out to explore common perception of our surrondings linked to the location in which we are in.

”A PERFECTLY SAFE HIDE-OUT”

BEIRUT STREET FESTIVAL ”EDITION 9” 2011

Mari Meen Halsøy/Helle Siljeholm/Sara Christophersen

Mari Meen Halsøy: Concept and visual art

Sara Christophersen & Helle Siljeholm: Concept, choreography and dance

Martin Lervik & Katharina Eriksson: Co- creating dancers

Mathias Eick: Music

The Barakat House/Beit Beirut is a 1924 masterpiece. It used to house upper middle class families until the outbreak of the civil war in 1975, when it became a vantage point for snipers due to its strategic location on the dividing ʻGreen Lineʼ. In 1997 it was sentenced for demolition, but was saved in 2003 by the efforts of officials, architects, heritage activists, journalists and NGOs. This is the ﬁrst and last time a performance is being staged in the building, which is scheduled for restoration to accommodate the ʼMuseum of Memoryʼ, tracing the 7000-year history of the city.

The project is supported by Municipality of Beirut (LB), The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beirut, Zico House (LB), FFUK (NO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway/DTS, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and Umam Documentation & Research (LB).

Where:

Barakat House/Beit Beirut, Damascus Road, Sodeco

When:

1. October at 5.30 pm

2. October at 4 pm & 5.30 pm

RSVP before 30. September to email: BARAKATHOUSE@GMAIL.COM

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