One Hundred Thousand Solitudes Lecture-Performance at Ashkal Alwan

As part of the Home Works 6 Platform, Ashkal Alwan is hosting a lecture-performance by Tony Chakar called “One Hundred Thousand Solitudes”.

“One Hundred Thousand Solitudes” examines images that came out of the Arab revolutions and from different Occupy movements throughout the world. These images are singularities, singular moments, that lead to the declaration of the coming of Messianic times – without a Messiah: The dead coming back to life, rivers turning into blood, people speaking in one tongue, the last becoming first, the reversal of historical order, men turning into women and vice versa.

These images were not witnessed first hand, but through social media (mainly Facebook and YouTube) – In other words, from deep within our solitude and isolation.