The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive

In The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive Raad uses photographic slides, notebook pages, and videotape excerpts as historical artefacts attributed to imaginary anonymous sources or invented characters such as Dr. Fadl Fakhouri, a leading historian of Lebanese history, or Souheil Bachar, an ex-hostage. The findings and claims of these figures are inspired by actual circumstances and objects such as the role of the car bomb in the Lebanese wars, existing captivity narratives, and horse-racing photographs.

BIT Teatergarasjen wrote the following in its program: "Raad sits behind a rectangular table, facing the audience, unpacking a selection of The Atlas Group’s documents, consisting of notes, films, videos and other objects. It is worth to notice that some of the documents presented by Raad are real, in the term that they exist in real life, whereas others are imaginary, products of his own imagination. Hence the historic outlook operates in the intersection between fact and fiction. A politically thought-provoking performance."

Source: BIT Teatergarasjen, spring program 2004. 05.12.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no