In the performance ‘Behind your eyeballs’, the performers explore their perception of the archive 858 which gathers the footage collected by the Mosireen collective in the streets of Egypt since 2011. Through the performance, the two artists investigate their relation to this archive, analyzing their role in the capture of the footage, in the conception of the website that rendered public this archival material and how, nowadays, they process it through an artistic proposition. Ultimately, the performance is a proposition on the artists’ relation to time. Here, the body becomes the primary tool to process the lived-experience of political mobilization. Reflecting on the past experiences, on the role the performers played then as activists and how, a decade later, they look back at their own intervention through performance will provide the base for analyzing artistic practices as a tool to reflect one’s positionality. Hence, this paper proposes to explore how Egyptian artists involved in the 2011 uprising reflect on their political engagement ten years later through performing arts ? How does the embodied aspect of their artistic practice offer a transformed perspective on their own involvement and activism ? Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Egyptian artists in Berlin, this paper analyzes how the temporal distance impacts artists’ subjectivities and how the creativity and the performance become medium to process and exteriorise these reflections. In parallel, the presentation will also parse out how the geographical distance (re)contextualizes the political reflections, creating connections and providing new concepts to rethink the forms and meanings of engagement.