33RPM theatre: A turntable sits on a stack of amplifiers, an ensemble that evokes the pre-CD hi-fi era. A telephone is on the floor. A bulky television. Books are scattered about. A laptop and printer, a mobile phone in its charger. Behind looms the wide screen. This performance is void of any actors. In their semi-documentary work, Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh reconstruct the final moments of a person’s life. A young Lebanese man takes his own life, and in a farewell letter, declares that his reasons are personal and have nothing to do with politics. The young man is dead but everything lives on, vibrating and communicating in his bedroom: the television, the answering machine, the computer…. Time pauses and begins anew; history is pieced together—never constructed, of course—from so many fragments of communication. This performance is void of any actors. This performance is presented in conjunction with Thomas Keenan’s talk New Media, New Documents.