716:“Uploaded and Unsanctioned” Introduction to The Pixelated Revolution by Rabih Mroué by Carol Martin, TDR, T215, pp. 19-24, 2012. Special issue of TDR (T191) “Documentary Theatre.” Essays by Carol Martin, Thomas Irmer, Wendy S. Herford, Linda Ben-Zvi, Stephen Bottoms, Janelle Reinelt, Andre Lepecki, an Interview with Doug Wright, and Pieces by Tim Etchells, Igal Ezraty, Michael Murphy, and Elias Khoury and Rabih Mroué.
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Mroué's performances, although scripted, are designed to appear more like improvised works in progress, reflecting his continuing theme of inquiry, focused more on provoking thought than presenting spectacle. Mroué has written of his own work, "My works deal with issues that have been swept under the
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His work is held in the collections of the MoMA in New York, the Centre
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Kunsthalle Mainz (2016); MoMA, New York (2015); Museum of Fine Arts, Mulhouse (2015); SALT, Istanbul (2014); Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2013) 2012); Documenta, Kassel (2012); Art Association Stuttgart (2011); and BAK, Utrecht (2010).
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toured internationally. Banned domestically by the
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Centre and a long-term partner of Ashkal Alwan, who has produced many of his performance pieces. He is currently an associate director of
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How Nancy Wished That
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