Ghenwa Noiré is an Amsterdam-based performer and multimedia installation practitioner. She uses her body as a vocal and movement instrument to tap into utterances and gestures that are influenced by the social structure of Lebanon. She accompanies her performances and film-based installation works using analogue loops in an attempt to revisit different forms of reality, and get past them. She interprets the social and domestic tensions embedded within oral history, gossip, and nonverbal cues in her narrated performances accompanied by music.
She investigates the branch of linguistics that is concerned with semantic satiation: The effect by which daily expressions used are washed out, as they are repeated and tokenized in the Lebanese society, where she grew up. As a tutor of journalists on storytelling and visual communication, she offers her skills to de-legitimize mainstream media and break free from the oppressive politics of the region.
To explore the notion of ‘being together’ Ghenwa opened her studio for jamming sessions with friends using different mediums. These sessions are being live-streamed on Radio AlHara. She partook in different musical jamming-based initiatives, amongst them were at the Stedelijk Museum, Documenta 15, Framer Framed, and Radio AlHara.
