Location: Château Beaurepaire in France’s Loire Valley. 1st floor.
Coordinates: 49°17′40″N 2°34′20″E
Documented: September 2023
Title: Syria…as my mother speaks
Coordinates: 49°17′40″N 2°34′20″E
Documented: September 2023
Title: Syria…as my mother speaks
Syria…as my mother speaks (2014), is an interactive playable “stringed instrument,” connecting wire to the architecture of a space, and when triggered, plays snippets of conversations with my mother (mainly in Arabic), centered around the war in Syria, our relatives there, and her memories before the war. These snippets are layered against a backdrop of war sounds, chants, and Syrian songs, where each string triggers different points in this sound collage.
Syria…as my mother speaks