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About
Tania El Khoury is a live artist creating installations and performances focused on audience interactivity and its politics. She is Distinguished Artist in Residence of Theater and Performance and Director of the Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College. Tania’s work has been presented in multiple languages across six continents. She was a 2019 Soros Art Fellow and the recipient of the Bessies Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award.
Memory of Birds
Tania El Khoury | Live Arts Bard Commission | World Premiere
Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation taking place in various trees in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands.
Through a guided somatic experience, the audience is invited to lay down on a hanging bed in a tree and access the spatial awareness of birds.
Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
Related
More on Tania El Khoury:
- Tania El Khoury Website
- Dictaphone Group Website
- Article: “Open Society Foundations Name Winners of 2019 Soros Arts Fellowships”
- Article: “Tania el Khoury: Meet the Lebanese live artist testing the limits of public space”
- Article: “Stories Of Syria’s Uprising, And Its Backyard Funerals, In ‘Gardens Speak’”