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The Active Feminine: Performance Art in Lebanon with Reference to Marya Kazoun

04 Saturday May 2013

Posted by StudiesIslamica in Artists - Middle East, Performing Arts - Lebanon

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Marya Kazoun

In the setting of the current Arab art boom and the political flux ignited by regional uprisings, the difficulty in differentiating between performance art and activism increases, further intertwining the abstract borders that divide them. Nonetheless, while activism pushes its way as a societal form of rejection, performance art conversely sneaks into the social sphere as an accepted method of protest, encouraged by the public as a sign of cultural sophistication.

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