_{30 days, 30 sites, 1 lunar cycle, 1 body across Berlin.}

The Insisting Body is a long-durational act of witnessing; 30 days, 30 sites, one lunar cycle, one body.Each day, a body arrives at a different site in Berlin where violence has been erased, denied, or left unmarked.

The work resists capitalist rhythms of production and spectacle, aligning instead with the slow, cyclical time of the moon.

It is both a cartography and a choreography: a living map inscribed through stillness, repetition, and presence.

The gesture; simple, enduring, unadorned, becomes a unit of measurement, registering the weight of historical and contemporary violence in the city’s architecture, streets, and silences.

Language here operates as both marker and refusal: site descriptions and daily updates create an accumulating archive that unsettles the city’s official narratives.

Choreography is not staged movement but the persistence of a body in relation to a place, a durational score unfolding in real time, asking the audience to return, to check, to witness.

The Insisting Body

A Project By Michael(a) Daoud