Preview & talk with Rana Hamadeh
7 – 9 pm: Sliding from dreams to trance to horror, Rana Hamadeh’s evolving video-work Standard_Deviation (I) ventures into Sophocles’ famed tragedy Oedipus Rex. Rather than re-narrating the misfortunes of Oedipus, king of Thebes, whose grievous journey of self-discovery unfolds at the height of the Theban plague, the work conducts a reading of the dramatic constructs of Sophocles’ play itself—that is, of his figuration of tragedy as a “technology of endurance.” Hamadeh’s phantasmagorical tableaux vivants are accompanied by a cacophonous sound composition. More info