Changing Parts

Description:

Mona Hatoum’s twenty-five-minute video Changing Parts delves into her personal experience of the Lebanese Civil War while living abroad, capturing the complexities of being distant from one’s family and homeland during a time of war. Hatoum intercuts domestic scenes from her family home in Beirut with documentation of her performance Under Siege (1982) at the London Film Makers’ Co-op, where she struggles inside a polyethylene-walled container with a floor covered in mud. Nude and unable to stand due to the sloping sides, she leaves streaks of mud across the surface as she attempts to rise.

Video documentation is available upon request.