A tender, intimate encounter between the artist and her mother, embodied by participant and performer in this 1:1 live VR performance.
This part-memoir, part-immersive archive draws audiences inside a digital reconstruction of the artist’s childhood home on an intimate journey that follows the complexities of her relationship with her mother across three decades marked by regional unrest and her eventual migration.
Nazar unfolds as experiential poetry within evil eye protection sessions, shared regularly over the years by mother and daughter, communicated primarily through touch.
Slowly moving past personal narratives, embodied performances invite audiences to experience these practices, extended virtually into a speculative future, not only as methodologies of deeply enduring care, but as ritualistic acts of soft resistance.


Nazar culminates in a magical choreography of motion-captured gestures, surveillance drones recordings, and chants, sealing a covenant between a people and their land, moon, clouds, stars and vines.




“This has been an unmatched experience that far exceeded what I thought could be accomplished in relation to performance and rooted sensorial knowledge”
Sursock Museum User-Testing [2024]
The experience is informed by an ongoing research that delves into the constellation of protection practices, passed-down from mother to daughter across generations in Southern Lebanon.




To learn more about our research, click here ……………………………………….. ↓↓↓↓↓↓




Created and performed by Lara Habib Kobeissi
Lead Collaborator and Associate Producer Thomas Buckley
Creative Technology Pete Roobol
Sound Design Sarmad Louis and Rawane Khater
XR Art Lara Habib Kobeissi
Performance Design Consultancy Hanane Hajj Ali and Sarmad Louis
Contributors:
Salam Ali Sbeity
Soad Jrady
Lina and Itaf Karaki
Sahar and Yusra Kobeissi
Special Thanks to: Elsa • Gigi • Youssef • Marwan • Mariam • Sara • Sally • Aida & Hussein Sbeity • Rola & Salah Zeidan • Alia Alzougbi • Wanda Hu • Marc Boothe • Rob Morgan • Ben Carlin
With additional thanks to: Thomas Buckley and Hanane Hajj Ali

























