Rami Chahine
Portfolio | Environmental Art & Social Practice
Rami Chahine
Excerpt from video of firing ceremony filmed and edited by Dima Mabsout, Laguna Creek Beach, Santa Cruz, CA



How can we reclaim the horror of dismembered bodies into a source of togetherness and healing?
What is the role of social practice and the collective imagination in moments where political violence and oppression want to render us powerless?
How does the environment surrounding a ceremony/collective action contribute to its regenerative imagination?



Limbs Making during the Bread & Puppet Theatre circus, Vermont, USA
Night firing with the volunteers and theater troup of Bread & Puppet, Vermont, USA

Limb excavation after Bread and Puppet’s “Oh you best descendants” theater show, Vermont, August 2025

“More than an exhibition, Limbs frames artistic practice not simply as cultural production,
but as a site of knowledge-making, collective inquiry, and social and material repair.”
                                                                                                Michael Flora, Executive and Artistic Director at Indexical