Mohamed Abdelkarim (El Minya, 1983). Abdelkarim’s practice is performance oriented. He considers performance as a research method and a practice through which he produces texts...

Mohamed Abdelkarim (El Minya, 1983). Abdelkarim’s practice is performance oriented. He considers performance as a research method and a practice through which he produces texts and images that embody the forms of poetry, scripts, sound, and video. Employing and reflecting on different performative acts like narrating, singing, dancing, detecting, and doing, his work is concerned with the performance of renegades in a time of crisis, complicating the relationship between geography and the fugitive.

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“Let the Sea Eat Me” is a book that holds eight performance scripts and other material to be spoken. Inspired by the figure of the renegade who leaves land behind and crosses the sea or leaves civilization to take refuge in the vast desert, the eight scripts embody the state of migrating, through space but also through languages, bodies, and writing genres. The renegade relates to geography, time, history, and society through constant movement. Stability is an aggression. Fear is a friend and a motivator as the search for new fictions, new lands, new realities, new promises continue.