About Waraq

 

Waraq is a community of curious individuals who aim to create and showcase multidisciplinary artistic projects combining illustration, animation, art direction and performing arts. The four-person collective resides and works in an old yellow house in Beirut called Beit Waraq (paper house) and travels the world giving workshops, doing residencies, and engaging in all things curious. Read more>>

Tumo students were involved in a two-week, multidisciplinary workshop led by the Beirut-based art collective Waraq. Participants combined storytelling techniques together with performing arts and mixed media to create an interactive installation space at the center.

Once the story concept was developed around the biblical figure of Noah, workshop participants divided up into five groups, focusing on dramaturgy, mask and puppet making, pixelated body movement, mixed media illustration, and interactive video installations. Each technique was taught to a different group of students who used what they learned to produce a section of the overall narrative.

Each group then chose a location at Tumo to house their installation and began rehearsing for the final performance.

In the end, a series of interactive spaces featuring sound, video, and live performance were linked together into a narrative environment. Audience members were guided through the spaces by workshop participants, who served as both creators and actors in the final performance.