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Memory of Birds

Tania El Khoury

A person lies in a yellow hammock-style sculptural installation hanging from a leafy green tree. There is a mask over their face
Photo by Maria Baranova

Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation that takes place in trees, created in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. The work explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. It centers the artist’s complicated relationship with the land – one that holds trauma, mass graves, and toxicity, a repository of political struggle, a record of power dynamics, and a site of various species migrating for survival.

A guided somatic experience, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.

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ذاكرةُ الطيور هي تركيبٌ صوتيٌّ تفاعليٌّ واختبارٌ حِسّيٌّ مُوجَّه يُقام بين الأشجار، بالتعاون مع معالِج مختصّ بالصدمات النفسية ومع الطيورِ المهاجرة. يستكشف العملُ العنفَ السياسيّ الذي يُدفن، حرفيًّا ومجازيًّا، في أراضٍ متنازَعٍ عليها. ويتمحور حول علاقة الفنانة الملتبسة بالأرض — أرضٌ تحمل الصدمة، والمقابرَ الجماعية، والسُّموم؛ مستودعٌ للصراع السياسي، وسجلٌّ لتشكُّلات الهيمنة، وممرٌّ حيٌّ تعبره الكائناتُ المرتحلة طلبًا للنجاة.إنّ «ذاكرة الطيور» عملٌ يلتهمُ نفسَه، مُصمَّمٌ كي يُنسى.

Part of Belluard Bollwerk festival in Fribourg.

A yellow image with abstract illustration on, with 'Memory of Birds Tania El Khoury' written in the middle

Installation Performance by Tania El Khoury

Text & Narration: Tania El Khoury

Space Design: Thena Tak & Ross Adams

Music & Sound Design: Fadi Tabbal

Guided Somatic Experience: Coral Franchi

LCSW, SEP Dramaturgy: James Stenhouse Mask

Design: Oscar Gardea

Song: Laila Samy

Illustration & Graphic Design: Haitham Haddad

Produced by Ania Obolewicz for Artsadmin

Commissioned by Bard Fisher Center LAB Common Ground 2023

Date and time

2–4 July 2026
40 minutes per session, with tickets available between the below times:

Thursday 2 July, 4 - 8pm
Friday 3 July, 4 - 8pm
Saturday 4 July. 4 - 8pm

Booking

15/20/35 CHF
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Venue

Fribourg
Switzerland

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