Firas Shehadeh
Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another: Rehearsal

Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another explores Millennial and Gen Z humour, emotions and aesthetics on and after the internet. Looking at internet memes, video games and other forms of online culture, the project engages with the digital condition in Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora.

An extension of Shehadeh’s ongoing research into video games and Palestinian youth culture, the first entry in the series, Rehearsal, combines found-footage of Twitch streamers and custom game mods for the video game Grand Theft Auto V. Unpacking video game mods as a form of contemporary archive — and therefore digitising historic and contemporary architectural sites in addition to seemingly ubiquitous objects — the artwork proposes Los Santos, the setting of the video game, as the proverbial “land of milk and honey.