March Chronicle by Saverio Cantoni, Shaza Omran & Tuba Kilic

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Who owns the narrative

Montage Interdit, the impossibility of connecting dots or seeing gaps.

It is a non-linear talk between us.

 

We gathered in a circle

 

Waiting the rest of the group to complete

This game needs us to be all here

 

And we started

 

Making, being

and weaving

 

Bouncing back and forth

 

Taking versus giving

 

Give and reflect your own existence

 

We are having a multi-linear conversation.

– Throwing a pillow from one to another.

– Shouting names from one to another.

– Doing these two actions together is like having two story lines with the same character.

 

Building relation

Building narrative

Create the sense of interconnectedness and mutual balance

 

Balance of heart and mind

 

Reciprocity

 

Each throw echoes with rhythmic insisting

 

Keep the timing

 

We montage two actions into each other.

– We march and chant.

– We sit and paint a banner.

– We stand and be next to each other.

– We roll on the floor and look at the sky

– We hold each other and hold each other.

 

Deep listening

 

There are moments of uncertainty of the next action

Be on time

 

When we hold each other it helps us to stand together. When we hold onto each other, it makes us louder. When we hold each other we–we create a gap between us. The gap is empty but the empty space is safe between us.

 

 

“Leaving empty in order to preserve the spaces…”

 

Radio Al-Hara: Talk by Elias and Yousef Anastas 

 

 

Remembering the sequence each move precise

 

Repetition and persistence

 

Stay present with attention concise

 

We stand next to each other. Where do we look together shows–tells–teachs us where do we stand in this life. We stand next to each other, we hold each other, shout together. This is what we learn from eachother after another majelis.

 

Excerpt 01: Rony Brauman & Eyal Sivan, THE SPECIALIST, portrait of a modern criminal 1999.

 

We had superiors, commanders, sub-comanders, units, sub-units… It was just like the army.

 

Why “Operation Matate?”

 

Do you understand “matate?”

You don’t know what it is?

Oh, I see!

A broom!

To clean the earth.

 

Why that name?

 

Because we swept out the Arabs.

Especially the nomads.

 

Excerpt 02: Eyal Sivan & Michel Khleifi, ROUTE 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, Chapter 3 the North, 2003.

 

Have you never felt pity for the expelled?

Can you talk about what you felt?

 

No, I can’t.

Let’s move on.

Let’s drop it.

We felt pity. We’re human.

 

Why won’t you tell me?

 

I told you, we felt pity.

So what?

 

Excerpt 03: Rony Brauman & Eyal Sivan, THE SPECIALIST, portrait of a modern criminal 1999.

 

While we were trying to construct the timeline that would create a narrative of continuity

  

Interacting with the Script: Theatre of the ___________

(Oppressed, Oppressor, Victim, Perpetrator, Wrecked, Privileged)

 

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