PACT Presents: Papers from the Citadel

"From the imaginal abyss he conjures with light and music, with his body and his face... There is nothing else like it on this planet." - Audience member

A character awakes in a surreal room where he is stripped of everything he was attached to. The room has no doors, only a single window. The person calls the room the Citadel. The world is in constant darkness; it is always night.

Papers from the Citadel by Adeeb Razzouk began as a series of writings made when Adeeb left Syria for Lebanon during the civil war. In solitude, as he wrote more and more, the Citadel and its characters became his inner sanctum.

Joined by collaborators Andrea Lim, Ali Rezvni and Amy Morris, the multimedia Papers of the Citadel conjures images out of words, shapes out of sounds, and light out of darkness to tell a story at once personal and universal about the power of an inner creative world in times of loss and hardship.

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Content Warnings

Haze, Flashing/Strobing light, Themes of isolation and dealing with trauma

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Papers from the Citadel is presented by PACT with support from City of Sydney, Creative Australia and Create NSW.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Development of the work was also supported by University of Sydney, CuriousWorks, SSI (Settlement Service International).