BACK ON · FCKN SUNDAY · mars 7 · 2026

Written By Myriam Marrache

The break happened.
What follows is not a return.
but a continuation, held in place.

BEING THERE

Still.
Presence remains.

GOING UNDER

A descent.
Time cuts.

STAYING IN MOTION

After the break —
motion holds.

ORIGIN

The Choregraphy of Daily Life, by Myriam Marrache.

A few months ago, I was riding my scooter through Florentin, savoring life to the fullest. Then an alarm. Nothing particularly new in recent times. Even though I had come from Paris, I had already adapted to the rhythm of the warning siren. A simple pause in my daily life.

That day, almost instinctively, I dropped my scooter and ran toward the entrance of a building where I had seen a man open the door. Other girls joined us in that room, which we closed with that special handle. The alarm fell silent. We waited. The ten minutes passed. We were able to go back outside.

As I stepped out of that building, which until then had been unknown to me, I picked up my scooter left on the road, like many others. Everyone resumed their lives exactly where they had been paused about ten minutes earlier. Human presence reappeared. The cafés reopened. The music was heard again. Drivers once again used their horns to set the city’s traffic back in motion.

And I watched them. I finally became aware, for the first time since my arrival, of my new way of life, of my new state of mind, without yet knowing that these were only the first signs of the next conflict, which lasted about ten days. Ten minutes of pause, twelve days of intense conflict over seventy-eight years of intermittent conflicts.

As movement resumed and human presence became visible again, I imagined myself in a theater, at the heart of a dance and a bodily improvisation made of interruptions and returns.

This sudden imagination had to become an artistic representation. To prolong this scene. To give it a form. To make it visible.

Back On, in the end, may be nothing more than this.
An interruption.
A return.
A society that holds its breath, then moves forward again.
A dance made of interruptions and new beginnings.

And in the midst of it all, art, for me, as a way of holding on. As Stefan Zweig wrote in The Uniformization of the World (1925):
“Here is our workshop, our world of our own, which will never be monotonous.”

Visual Design Video
Kli5up

Photographer
Julia Cherbit

Art
Yuval Keeley
Michal Tahan
Anna Muravich
Noa Gosley
Dekel Harari
Ilya Gefter

Music
Hillel Shabtai
Åno

Location
FCKN SUNDAY, Tel Aviv

 
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