Moon Meat Lyrical

Moon Meat Lyrical

Reading with Amir Rezk and Yara Mekawei

In Chinese, the characters 月 (moon) and 肉 (meat) share a formal resemblance that can be traced back to ancient oracle bone inscriptions. Over time, their forms merged to form the so-called “moon-meat radical” 月. A radical describes a semantic or phonetic component used to form other characters. 月 can refer both to the body—as in 肌 (muscle) and 腸 (intestine)—and to the changing moonlight, as in 朗 (brightness) and 期 (period). The combination of “moon” and “flesh” establishes a poetic connection between the celestial body and earthly flesh. In the misty, undulating moonlight, the soft, sentient bodies of human and non-human actors alike emerge as empathetic, cyclical, transformative, and imaginative. 
 
As an offshoot of the discourse programL is for the Way You Look at Me, Moon Meat Lyrical collaborates with musicians Yara Mekawei and Amir Rezk and invites the audience to a nighttime listening session on the terrace. In a gathering under the moon—and, with a bit of luck, during a meteor shower—this evening brings together stories and readings about the moon, tidal waves, surging emotions, and cyclical bodies, all accompanied by music. 

As part of theLong Night of Museums  

In English