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ELISABETH SUBRIN, THE LISTENING TAKES / MANAL ISSA, 2024
November 17, 2024 - February 2, 2025

Elisabeth Subrin, production still from <em>The Listening Takes</em>, 2023. Photo: Maya Zardi

Elisabeth Subrin, production still from The Listening Takes, 2023. Photo: Maya Zardi

From November 17, 2024 – February 2, 2025, PARTICIPANT INC presents Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024. The exhibition includes a new iteration of Subrin’s immersive multi-channel video and sound installation, The Listening Takes, and Manal Issa, 2024, shot in Beirut this September.

The Listening Takes expands on Subrin’s 2022 cinematic recreation of a controversial 1983 television interview with the late French actress Maria Schneider in which actors Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval play Schneider in three distinct reenactments, reinterpreted to highlight Schneider’s prescient confrontation with the patriarchal structure of the film industry. The three-channel installation, suspended in time and space, deploys new film footage and sonic strategies to produce a collective, cross-historical, intersectional portrait of actresses reckoning with consent, representation, and trauma. In the adjacent new video, Manal Issa, 2024, Subrin adds an affective, fourth reenactment culled from hours of subsequent conversations between Elisabeth in the U.S. and Manal in Lebanon, which intimately considers the role of the actor during the unfolding global conflict.

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *The Listening Takes*, 2023-2024, <br>30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured The Listening Takes, 2023-2024,
30:00 minutes, 3-channel 16mm/HD video, 9-channel sound, speakers, suspended screens, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, <em>The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 2024, installation view, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, *The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024*, 2024, installation view; pictured *Manal Issa, 2024*, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured Manal Issa, 2024, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, <em>The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 2024, installation view; pictured <em>Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured Manal Issa, 2024, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, <em>The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 2024, installation view; pictured <em>Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured Manal Issa, 2024, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, <em>The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 2024, installation view; pictured <em>Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured Manal Issa, 2024, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, <em>The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 2024, installation view; pictured <em>Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured Manal Issa, 2024, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, <em>The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 2024, installation view; pictured <em>Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured Manal Issa, 2024, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, <em>The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 2024, installation view; pictured <em>Manal Issa, 2024</em>, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured Manal Issa, 2024, 10:00 minutes, HD video, sound, Photo: Daniel Kukla

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