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Rabih Mroué: Life, Death and the Digestive System

Three people are sitting at a white table lit with a spotlight. The rest of the space is pitch black. People are looking at two drink cans placed at the table on their sides. The assumed woman sitting in the middle has red curly hair. On the right sits an assumed man with a bushy mustache and short hair. On the left, an assumed man with curly medium length hair. Everyone is wearing black clothes.

Baltic Circle Festival 2019 ends with a performance called Borborygmus by Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué and Mazen Kerbaj. Borborygmus premiered in Minneapolis at Walker Art Center in January 2019.

Prior to Borborygmus’ premiere Allie Tepper interviewed Rabih Mroué in Walker Reader. Baltic Circle translated the interview in Finnish. You may read the interesting interview in English here.

“Between Lina, Mazen, and I, each one of us has our own concerns, and the work was made by negotiating them, and through collaboration. There was only one “veto” rule. We decided that if there is something we have done before, we should not do it now in this piece. This was the only agreement that we had between us, and this is how we constructed the work.”
-Rabih Mroué

Three people are sitting at a white table lit with a spotlight. The rest of the space is pitch black. People are looking at two drink cans placed at the table on their sides. The assumed woman sitting in the middle has red curly hair. On the right sits an assumed man with a bushy mustache and short hair. On the left, an assumed man with curly medium length hair. Everyone is wearing black clothes.

A dark performance space, where a soft light partially illuminates the room from the left edge. A person with a mustache collects crumpled up white papers to a blue plastic bag while standing. There are also two other people in the space at a distance, in all fours. There are three microphone stands on the stage.

Many times a wall covered with plaster of slightly different colors, on which various portrait photographs are attached.

Photos: Bobby Rogers