MONOLOGUE#10 | Whatever You Build + Empty Cans
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Artist and business owner Doreen Toutikian, founder of Beirut Design Week (and many other beautiful things that she’s had to leave in her past due to war) sits down with KP on February 23rd 2024 and performs monologue #10: Taima Okasha. She reflects on growing up hiding from bombs, the “Palestinian exception” anti-Palestinian racism in the arts and her fears of what might happen to her own home, Lebanon, if Israel is not stopped.
Six months and many voice memos later, some of the fears Doreen expressed in her interview start to occur as Israel attacks Lebanon.
"This is some black mirror shit. We've never seen anything like this." says Doreen.
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| 0:00.0 | From Ashar Theater and Mermaid Palace, |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the heart. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Caitlin pressed. |
| 0:27.0 | And this. I'm Caitlin Pressed and this is great love the Gaza monologues revisited. I'm recording this on September 19th. |
| 0:31.0 | I just got a message from Doreen to Tikeyan. So about what just happened the |
| 0:37.9 | last couple of days in Lebanon I'm just gonna start up by telling you the |
| 0:42.4 | numbers there are over 2,931 badly injured people. |
| 0:50.0 | 287 of them are actually health care workers and 37 dead. And this happened because |
| 0:58.1 | pagers and then the next day walkie talkies and all sorts of devices started detonating and they realize that these |
| 1:07.2 | devices had actually been planted with a bomb that will go off simultaneously with remote controlled. |
| 1:14.7 | And I am very worried about my parents. |
| 1:17.8 | Things were happening around them the last two days the whole time and they stayed in and |
| 1:21.6 | luckily none of their devices detonated. |
| 1:24.0 | This is not like something we've ever seen. |
| 1:26.8 | This is like some black mirror shit. |
| 1:28.8 | If you don't know anything about the context that led to this moment, if you know everything about the context that led to this moment. |
| 1:33.7 | If you know everything about the context that led up to this moment, |
| 1:36.6 | maybe you know all about the context but you've only ever read about it in news media |
| 1:41.2 | and you're interested in hearing someone talk about it an eloquent |
| 1:45.1 | charismatic artist talking about her own experience of it. Follow me back a few |
| 1:52.3 | months. |
| 1:55.0 | September, August, July, June, May, April, March. |
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