Self-Portrait Workshop

This workshop worked with a group of women from Nahr El Bared, Al Baddawi and Tripoli area. It looked at different ways we can make a self-portrait using our bodies, movement, objects, media, and the environment to express who we are and tell our stories.

The group engaged in a collaborative process of inquiry, reflection, and creation by using writing, video, performance and installation arts to experiment with responses to these histories. Self-portraiture allows for a personal way to examine multiple global and local issues of identity and power relations. This terrain also allows the examination of how different ways of knowing and seeing the world impact how people understand each other and themselves.