Lina Majdalanie

Lina Majdalanie is a Lebanese actress, writer and director living in Berlin. She has written and directed several plays, including Biokhraphia (2002), Appendice (2007), Photo-Romance (2009), 33 rpm and a few seconds (2012), Borborygmus (2019), Sunny Sunday (2020) and Hartaqāt (2023) in collaboration with Rabih Mroué. She also made the video I had a dream, mom in 2006 and Lina Saneh Body-P-Arts Project, a website project (2007) transformed into an installation in 2009. Her work questions citizenship, the place of the human being in the public space and, more specifically, that of the body in the age of globalisation, the Internet, the virtual image and the surveillance society. Lina Majdalanie has also curated projects such as Motion-Less (2009), Vues (2015), Beyond Beirut (2016), Relatively universal (2017) and No One’s Land (2023). She has taught at various universities in Beirut and at the Haute École d'Art et de Design in Geneva from 2008 to 2013, at DasArts in Amsterdam in 2012 and at Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2016 and 2021.

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