WALKING ON WATER [art Performance]

Victoria & Albert Museum (South Kensington), London (UK) · 2023

THE WATER WALK

When I was a young Jedi, I fed the multitude.
The world trade organization accused me of anti-competitive behaviour.
They sent an army of bounty hunters after me. I ran away.

When I reached the Red Sea, I parted the water with a magic stick and I crossed on dry ground until the other bank.
There, I turned back and saw the Pharaoh and his soldiers drowning in the Red Sea.

A few days after, the Arab League accused me of non respect of immigration regulations. I became an illegal migrant.
The immigration police was pursuing me, I ran north and reached the White Sea.

There, I tried to parten the waters but the stick trick did not work.
I had to walk on water. So I did.

When I reached the Lampedusa coast, the Roman coastguards arrested me for illegal walk on water.
I asked for political asylum but they pushed me back to the Turkish boarders.

I waited one year and I settled near the Black Sea.
I am working hard trying to learn how to walk on Black waters
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- Hassan Musa's introduction to the WALKING ON WATER performance

Photo credits: Mimane Musa

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