An Afterthought on the Beirut Silent Dinner Party.

The overwhelming sense I felt mounting work in Beirut was how context fundamentally changes any action. In Lebanon, the work was politicised, whether that was my intention or not. In Beirut I was acutely aware of the dangers of Silencing the people, the importance of free speech, and of the proliferation of the Silent Witness through hardship and oppression. These incredibly loaded associations showed themselves through the overtly passionate, and almost dubious responses the idea provoked. The playful and lustful way the people then threw themselves into the experience had a bittersweet tone I hadn’t encountered before. An inspiring encounter with an undercurrent that pulls me along still, a year later.

This was my visual response to these ideas at the time.