Amduat

The 12 Hours of Ra

Immersive 8-channel projection installation

Amduat: The Twelve Hours of Ra is an immersive multi-media theater experience that centers on the Egyptian-American diaspora.

Drawing on themes of circularity and liminality, the work situates Egyptian aesthetics in the Western museum space and draws on the Ancient Egyptian myth of Ra’s twelve-hour journey in the Duat.

The audience is taken on a “docent” tour by major figures in Egypt’s Pharaonic age, encountering mythological counterparts to experience the duality of order and chaos.

- dir. Laura Bourtos