“The Love Manual: Tupperware” explores the intersection of love, routine, and objects—specifically, the symbolic and functional dimensions of Tupperware. Developed in collaboration with Pamela Hayek, the project examined how love manifests in everyday rituals and how repetition transforms simple gestures into profound acts of care, control, or absence.

Through physical theatre, movement, and text, the research dissected the ways in which giving, receiving, and imposing love mirror the ways we interact with objects. The Tupperware became a central metaphor, representing preservation, memory, and emotional weight, revealing how mundane exchanges hold deeper meaning. The residency involved movement improvisation, semiotic analysis of language, and the development of performative dialogues using Lebanese colloquial expressions.

The culmination of this research resulted in a performative text dump, an installation concept, and a set of embodied exercises that questioned how love is performed, stored, and circulated. This phase of The Love Manual laid the groundwork for further exploration into the transformation of routine into ritual, displacement, and the evolving meaning of objects in human relationships.