{"id":1515,"date":"2019-07-01T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2021-03-18T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:02:48","slug":"the-first-moment-of-marwa-el-sherbini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"The First Moment of Marwa El Sherbini, by Noa Gur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An activist video work and performance by Noa Gur, 2019. Performed by Xica Lisboa, Pauline Payen, Daniel Adams, K-ske sugawara, Sebastian Rein, Alexey Trubarov, Irina Demina, Zihern Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"videoContainer\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The First Moments of Marwa el-Sherbini- Performance\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/439323254?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece relates to a hate crime which took place in a German courtroom in 2009: The killing of a young woman, who was murdered with eighteen stab wounds during a trial in which she testified on racist insults directed at her in 2008 by her eventual killer. During the sudden attack, el-Sherbini\u2019s husband pushed himself between the attacker and Marwa to protect her and, as a result, suffered sixteen wounds. He eventually collapsed when a policemen shot his knee, having mistaken him for the killer. These disturbing occurrences pose urgent questions, which remain to a large extent unresolved, as the family&rsquo;s lawsuit against that Dresden court has been rejected three times.<br><br>In this work, the trial that led to the murder is staged through the use of data from police files, and is presented in reverse order in public space.<br>On the one hand, the piece is an investigation on the questions raised by this incident: namely, how could such a thing occur in the public sphere, in an official building. On the other hand, it is a challenging choreographic task, in which dancers examine the course of events in physical-spatial dimensions while searching for truth. The time axis is reversed and the action is staged backwards to arrive at the beginning of the trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performed on the 1st of July 2019 for the 10 years commemoration in front of teh German Kanzleramt. A10 minutes long performance followed by a short talk by activist prof. Sabine Schiffer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performers: Xica Lisboa, Pauline Payen, Daniel Adams, K-ske sugawara, Sebastian Rein, Alexey Trubarov, Irina Demina, Zihern Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director: Noa Gur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant: Pauline Payen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project has been supported by Berlin senate research Stipend, Ostrovsky foundation (N.Y, US), Artport Alumni grants and National Lottery Cultural Funds (IL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video article Al Jazeera : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\/videos\/334344590844539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\/videos\/334344590844539<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noa Gur : <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.khm.de\/~gur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www1.khm.de\/~gur\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An activist video work and performance by Noa Gur, 2019. 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