📂💸💾 Becoming a governor 📂💸💾

Sharing the same name as the governor of Lebanon’s central bank has created a certain narrative and socio-economic position of how my body is presented and seen within the world.

“Becoming a governor” was a wikipedia performance that was alive for 5 minutes on July 7, 2022 between 17:23 and 17:28. I was the only viewer as my edits were automatically changed after publishing.

The project was an auto-ethnographic research project about reclaiming identity and playing around the notion of economy and power through irony. The process involves me editing Riad Salameh’s Wikipedia page and reclaiming it as my own. The reaction of the public will be collected as material so I can research: How can a name create different narratives for two different bodies?