Lime Rickey International is the superconsciousness of Leyya Mona Tawil, an artist working with dance, sound and performance practices. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American. Lime Rickey International emerged as a container for the world of lost homeland. Born of ‘noise and nation’ and displaced in time, she dives into a sea of ancient and future unknowns in order to describe diasporic confusion and craving. Future Faith is rooted in Tawil’s practice of Arabic folk forms, specifically dabke and tarab. Tawil embeds political sub-narratives and cultural confusions into Lime’s performance transmissions. 

I had the absolute pleasure to work together with Leyya on her already existing performance, and re-stage the work through innovative lighting. I have heavily used comic book references translated to theatrical space, and color temperature shifts as indicators of singularity, multitude and otherness. Time is pictured as Lime must have experienced it.

The piece had me travel to Abrons art centre in New York and New performance art festival in Turku.

Photo by Jussi Virkkumaa

Future Faith features the following collaborators beside myself on lighting:

Costume: Scott Tallenger

Set: Tim Clifford

This generous artist’s curatorial projects like the Arab.amp is an exemplary work of creating new grounds of cultural exchange.

Trailer to be seen here: