A performative, participatory, and immersive walk, C!S-TEM Error invites the audience on a quest for a lost sense of security and belonging. How can we define security when our bodies are marked by migration, colonization, queerness, and racialization?
“This is not just my story, it is also the stories carried by generations of resistance.”
Through storytelling, or the art of hakawati, Nadim Bahsoun revives the oral traditions passed down by his family from southern Lebanon, a region marked by war, occupation, and destruction. In particular, he pays tribute to his grandmother Amina, also known as Hajjeh Omm Hassan, whose resilience, acts of care, and culinary rituals preserved a space of warmth and comfort in the midst of violence.
Throughout this journey, Nadim invites the audience into his home in Lebanon for a sensory dialogue combining storytelling, poetry, song, rituals, and scents. The body becomes an archive, a memory, and a territory of resistance.