The gentle Élie Mitri and comedian Nour Hajjar entangled in an administrative situation in "Mich lal kil." Photo Nour Chebli
Picture Sara Abdo, her raw sensitivity, tense performance, and intense presence, inhabited by a humanoid issuing orders through an algorithm installed within her system. Imagine the gentle Elie Mitri and comedian Nour Hajjar entangled in an administrative situation — as surreal as such situations typically are — made even more absurd by the roboticization of the process. While the nature of their request holds little significance, the dramatic depth of their performance is heightened by a barrage of bizarre tests imposed on them by an electronic voice, suddenly personified as a woman who asserts she has no gender.Through Sara, the algorithm will, time and again, probe all the vulnerabilities of the two men, literally stripping them bare in order to ultimately lay claim to what it lacks: human sensitivity. What seems to be a...
Picture Sara Abdo, her raw sensitivity, tense performance, and intense presence, inhabited by a humanoid issuing orders through an algorithm installed within her system. Imagine the gentle Elie Mitri and comedian Nour Hajjar entangled in an administrative situation — as surreal as such situations typically are — made even more absurd by the roboticization of the process. While the nature of their request holds little significance, the dramatic depth of their performance is heightened by a barrage of bizarre tests imposed on them by an electronic voice, suddenly personified as a woman who asserts she has no gender.Through Sara, the algorithm will, time and again, probe all the vulnerabilities of the two men, literally stripping them bare in order to ultimately lay claim to what it lacks: human sensitivity. What seems to be a...
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