Cosmic A* (2021), created and performed by Charlie Prince, is a 45 minute solo performance concert that observes the body as an archaeological space and engages this body in rituals of excavation – revealing new and unbound mythologies, allowing for a limitless agency of self-representation and rootedness.
Created in response to the multiple crises in Lebanon between 2019 – 2021, this new, stripped down version for the MR Festival is a meditation on the last three years, looking back, looking in and forward as a transposition of the work for a different context and time.
The body is a site of being. It is matter that is shaped, deformed, that ascends and emerges. It is a site of revolution, of oppression. Of representation and mis-representation. Of wholeness and fragmentation. It is the surface where ideas and action meet. It is the container of manifestos, of traumas, of unanswered questions and fragile answers. The body has never crystallized. It is always becoming. Over and over again.
