I Always Wanted to Become Everyone

I Always Wanted to Become Everyone is a speculative fiction performance set in 2046 New Beirut, a future where everyone wears Brain Computer Interfaces. Early August of that year, a number of individuals start "glitching", cycling through personas. A quarantine ensues, an investigation starts. Soon we discover a mysterious yellow mold had been growing between these people's devices and brains.
Halim Madi, poet and technologist, cycles live between a cast of characters: a news anchor, a French philosopher, an army general, a gallerist, a senator, a tech visionary, and a childhood friend who insists the condition might actually be a form of migration. The piece blends live performance with AI-generated video projection and moves between English, French, and Lebanese Arabic. It runs about 55 minutes and ends with music and, maybe, a dance party. I Always Wanted to Become Everyone is a tragi-comedy about identity, diaspora, and what we mean when we say someone has "lost themselves."
This project is developed within CultureHub’s Experiments in Digital Storytelling Program.
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