What happens when we unearth the sounds that live in us? What possibilities for action emerge when we voice our most soothing, our most triggering sounds?
Sound Body is a multimedia performance in “sono-archeology”, a practice that explores the body as a sound archive and excavation site.
Working with remembered and collected sounds, Kim Baraka explores our relationship to sound as a gateway to our identities and lived experiences. Based on an archive of sounds ranging from the 2020 Beirut blast, the sound of Israeli drones constantly occupying the Lebanese airspace, and gibberish poems composed by loved ones, Sound Body is a live excavation of buried sounds experienced from afar through looped voice compositions and movement.
The performance invites us to reflect on our individual and collective paths in relation to heritage, belonging, and memory in a world that keeps shattering us time and time again.
