An audio cassette used in the performance "Goodbye Schlöndorff" by Wael Koudaih, a medium for intimate recordings played on stage. (Photo provided by the artist)
As the somber 20-year commemoration of the July 2006 war approaches in the context of a new Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon, some voices from the Lebanese diaspora set out to denounce the ongoing destruction and erasure, while it is still possible to do so. For Wael Koudaih, known by his former rapper pseudonym Rayess Bek, the revival of "Goodbye Schlöndorff," thirteen years after its creation, is a way to resist the status quo. From the same artist 'Love and Revenge': Vintage orient remixed electro-pop come to Beirut Still built on the encounter between the astonishing film by German director Volker Schlöndorff, "The Falsifier" shot in Beirut in 1981, and intimate letters recorded on audio cassettes, Koudaih's show — presented last April 3 at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre for the 8th edition of the...
As the somber 20-year commemoration of the July 2006 war approaches in the context of a new Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon, some voices from the Lebanese diaspora set out to denounce the ongoing destruction and erasure, while it is still possible to do so. For Wael Koudaih, known by his former rapper pseudonym Rayess Bek, the revival of "Goodbye Schlöndorff," thirteen years after its creation, is a way to resist the status quo. From the same artist 'Love and Revenge': Vintage orient remixed electro-pop come to Beirut Still built on the encounter between the astonishing film by German director Volker Schlöndorff, "The Falsifier" shot in Beirut in 1981, and intimate letters recorded on audio cassettes, Koudaih's show — presented last April 3 at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre for the 8th edition of...
