Triangulated City
Beirut, Lebanon 2009
A multi-location live art event that investigated the movement of superstition and rumour that spreads through the streets of Beirut. The event encouraged spectators to view the city as a living performance with each location a place of confrontation and encounter, finding clues, spreading rumours, and locating the next two sites.
Created through LOTOS Collective with Zoukak Theatre Company and Cultural Association and in collaboration with invited participants, devised the project through a series of participatory workshops.
Over three days, in three locations, three performances unfolded simultaneously each evening. The audience navigated the city to visit each of the sites, thus utilising the urban landscape as staging. Utilising a multi-disciplinary approach, each specific site was transformed into a place of artistic encounter, creating an opportunity for workshop participants to develop and expand their artistic interest. The workshops was a place to meet a broad range of creative people and together share, think and expand upon our perceptions of the cityscape. Through our own stories, memories, and urban legends we explored the geographical and geopolitical movement of narrative through the streets of Beirut, illuminating a new relationship and perspective to the urban milieu.
Triangulated City encouraged participants and spectators to view the city as an artistic canvas, with each specific location a place of dialogue and encounter.
Site A: Zoukak (Alleyway)
Site B: Central Parking
Site C: Luna Park
