HERitage emBODYment: Re-Storying Egyptian Antiquities is a multi-media, multi-modal, multi-lingual (English, Arabic, Fadjiki) piece that tours as a site-responsive performance installation and theatrical procession at Egyptian wings of US museums and theatres. Deeply satirical, humorous, and rooted in our indigenous performance traditions (oral storytelling, music, dance, puppetry, clowning), we invite audiences to witness us re-author what it means to be Egyptian, Nubian, and American. Embodying the personal as political, our bodies serve as extensions of our ancestors’ memory as we intertwine our lived histories with theirs. We interrogate how our own exoticized and politicized bodies are like the artifacts: on display for western consumption. Doing so, we mirror the migration and displacement of humans and artifacts.
Land Acknowledgement: Tongva, Chumash, Apalachees, Mvskoke, Miccosukee, Hitchiti
