Permanent Trespass (Beirut of the Balkans & the American Century)

Permanent Trespass (Beirut of the Balkans & the American Century) is a performance that opens up a complex grammar of mourning in the face of impersonal, legal accounts of collective grief.

The piece contends with the temporal, political, and intellectual fallout of so-called post-conflict societies beset by imperialist violence in the 20th century. Its plot centers on two traveling eulogists who encounter one another in a declining architectural estate. They must contend with the sense of an ending-of an epoch, of a revolution, of a regime.