Time often appears to us as a neutral category in its everydayness, yet it is subtly intertwined with power processes: for instance, the assertion that some cultures were progressive while others were supposedly backward served as a justification for colonial violence. Reading »the Other« as »backward« or particularly »primitive« still bears witness to an exoticizing devaluation today. Simultaneously, inequality is also created when the telling of one's own history occurs not from an internal perspective but as an external description.

With ›LIBYA‹, Brussels-based P.A.R.T.S. graduate Radouan Mriziga breaks this narrow view of time and the Other, exploring Libyan culture through performance, dance, rap, stories, language, and song. Drawing upon facets of Libyan identity embodied by nine artists, encompassing the legacy of North African craftsmanship, inventions and science, cultures, and philosophy, Mriziga seeks to reappropriate history, connecting it to the present and opening it up to a range of perspectives. Rather than being didactic or documentary, pedagogical or anthropological, Mriziga's work creates a non-imperial potential history, one that can be experienced as a single unit and continuity of knowledge and universal flow.

Concept & Choreography: Radouan Mriziga With & by: Sondos Belhassen, Mahdi Chammem, Hichem Chebli, Bilal El Had, Jeannolin Maïté Minh Tâm, Senda Jebali, Feteh Khiari, Myriam Konaté Scenography: Radouan Mriziga Costume design: Anissa Aidia & Lila John Light design: Radouan Mriziga Poem contribution: ›And set them alight‹ by Asmaa Jama Assistance: Aïcha Ben Miled, Nada Khomsi, Khalil Jegham Technical direction: Atbane Zouheir Production manager: Rui Silveira Tour manager:                                         Niki Fischer, Luca Napoli (Something Great)

Production: A7LA5 vzw L'Art Rue/ Dream City Coproduction: Festival de Marseille, L’Art Rue, deSingel, Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation, C-Mine, Moussem Nomadic Arts Center Residencies: Kaaitheater Brussels, L’Art Rue Tunis With the support of: Flemish Government International Distribution: Rui Silveira (Something Great) Tour Management: Luca Napoli (Something Great)