Khalid Abdalla spoke about Nowhere — an “anti-biography” that turns the intimate into political cartography, summons ghosts of history, and opens a fragile yet defiant space for memory, responsibility, and action in a world that insists on silence.
In Geneva, at the Festival de la Bâtie, Khalid Abdalla presented Nowhere for the first time with French subtitles. Neither confession nor monument, but an “anti-biography,” this solo unfolds as an act of resistance against linear narratives and fixed identities. On stage, the intimate becomes political cartography: Tahrir Square and its echoes, counter-revolutions, the ongoing Nakba, the unbearable awareness of a genocide unfolding in the present. With deliberate restlessness, Abdalla shapes a fractured form that refuses to smooth over the violence of the world. Nowhere summons “political ghosts,” embraces vulnerability as strength, and opens a ritual space where memory, responsibility, and action contend for visibility. In this conversation for Le Beau Bizarre, Khalid Abdalla shares the genealogy of the piece and what it makes possible: a way of living and speaking when everything around us insists on silence.
