“All play means something”
Johan Huizinga
I'm working on a performance piece where I try and mime the names of the 70,000+ Palestinians killed since the start of the October 2023 Israeli offensive. The aim is to experience the frustration and impossibility of getting the mostly unreported and unmentioned names into the public realm as part of an endurance exercise prone to all the frictions and translation errors inherent in miming phonetics. The piece is provisionally called Charade.