Blocked Duwar

By Feras Shaheen in collaboration with Jonny Scholes, 'Blocked Duwar' is based on Feras Shaheen's experience of maintaining Palestinian identity within diaspora. 'Blocked Duwar' explores the simultaneous frustration and resilience of forced separation from your Indigenous homeland. Set within an imagined Palestine—pieced together from fragmented memories, family records and digital remnants—Shaheen's struggle for self-determination is explored through dance performance that blends video game technology, sound, user interface and experience design. 'Blocked Duwar' considers the agency of the public, asking viewers to confront their own role in local and global systems of power, the perpetuation of propaganda, and the liberation of Indigenous people.