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The Gombe Chimpanzee War (1974–78) was a violent conflict between two chimpanzee groups, the Kasakela and the Kahama, observed and documented by Jane Goodall in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Marked by territorial expansion, organized aggression, and planned attacks including instances of cannibalism, the conflict resulted in the systematic elimination of the Kahama group. Using the form of a documentary, the performance examines the processes and contexts through which territorial violence takes shape. By reconstructing and retracing individual and collective behaviors, movements, and spatial incidents, it studies how such violence is enacted, rehearsed, and enforced.