This is Not What I Want to Tell You is a 50-minute performance/installation about a 15-year-old sleepwalker who one day wakes up by a settlement fence while getting arrested. But did she really commit anything?

Rimah Jabr wrote the story during a wave of knife attacks by Palestinian teenagers in 2015 and 2016, with most being shot or imprisoned before causing harm.

In a land where childhood is under constant surveillance, children are often imprisoned for ordinary activities, playing in the ‘wrong’ area, crossing invisible boundaries, or merely existing in their lands. The piece explores how these young people, denied the language and platforms to express their experiences, find their bodies become both the message and the medium of their resistance.

Through a fusion of performance and installation featuring sun prints, this dream-like experience invites audiences to engage with the narrative from multiple perspectives while witnessing the live creation of visual elements that embody unspoken truths and unspeakable realities.