52 Love Letter to Mars : yazan khalili

Love Letter to Mars <2014>
Lecture performance and exhibition w/Lara Khaldi
Exhibition Artists: Dirar Kalash, Gerard Ortin, Maha Maamon, and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

Exhibited and performed:
-Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafi, Cairo 2013
-Of Love, Departures and Countering Defeats in Choleric Times. OCA. Oslo, 2014

The starting point of this project is a lecture performance that unfolds formally into various exhibition fragments. The performance is based on an exchange of letters between two earthly lovers and a fictional character named Waad, who left for Mars in the year 2024 and now plans to reside there for the rest of her life. Modern man has plundered Earth at a pace that has outstripped the planet’s capacity to support human life. In order to survive, Earth’s population begins to move to other planets in the third decade of the century.

 
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Maha Maamon video

 
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Gerard Ortin

 
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Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

 
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Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries