An intimate, interactive sound installation of a graveyard
When: September 12–23
Where: Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall, 150 N Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Price: $20
Tags: #intimate, #sitespecific, #participatory, #interactive, #ContentAdvisory (see below)
As part of Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2018, artist Tania El Khoury (London/Beirut) will display a suite of work, including two interactive performance pieces (As Far As My Fingertips Take Me, Gardens Speak) using real oral histories to challenge audience empathy.
Across Syria, many gardens conceal the dead bodies of activists and protesters who adorned the streets during the early periods of the uprising. These domestic burials play out a continuing collaboration between the living and the dead. The dead protect the living by not exposing them to further danger at the hands of the regime. The living protect the dead by conserving their identities, telling their stories, and not allowing their deaths to become instruments to the regime.
Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves may have recounted it. They are compiled with found audio that evidences their final moments.
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Contact Level: None
Content Advisories: Stories of death, war, and politics. Participants should wear shoes that are easy to take off and be prepared to lie down.
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