Jessika Khazrik was born between Baghdad and Beirut in 1991 and is currently based in Boston where she is pursuing a MSc in Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT. She studied Theater and Linguistics at the Lebanese University, and in 2012‒13 took part in the “Home Workspace Program” at Ashkal Alwan. Playing with performance, writing and exhibition, her interdisciplinary work investigates the correlation between truth and testimony. Her projects include “The Influence of Prostitution on Tourism” (2013), “Flying City in the Aerial Paths of Communication” (2013), “My Body If Only I Could See You” (2014), and the ongoing “Blue Barrel Grove” (2014‒) and “Abolish Language” (2015‒). She also collaborates with filmmakers, artists, and collectives as writer, actress, and translator, and organizes political parties. Her writing is published in the Bidayat Journal, Kohl Journal, Almodon, as well as other independent publications. In 2014 she launched the interdisciplinary platform “The Society of False Witnesses.” Through occupying disciplines in collaborations, writing, performance, cryptography, and learning, “The Society of False Witnesses” probes and plays with the spatial politics of exile, the underground, the internet, and the battlefield, and their epistemological repercussions on the performance and lexica of ignorance and knowledge. Their work includes the performance The First Repository (Beirut Art Center, Beirut, 2015), the dance performance Instead of a Turret on Top (ICA, Boston, 2015), the exhibition Content and Danger(Edgerton Center, Boston, 2015), the radio play I Hate the Past but It Seduces Me (The Lebanese Broadcasting Station, Beirut, 2016), and the sound essay D B B D (Forum Expanded, ADK, Berlin, 2016).