Sound Body
Sound Body
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, the artist 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.
Arrive early! An interactive installation can be experienced 15 minutes before the performance starts.
on september 7, THIS PERFORMANCE IS PART OF A DOUBLE BILL. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE INFORMATION.
About the makers
Kim Baraka is a Lebanese-born dance artist and AI scientist based in Amsterdam. His artistic practice centers improvisation as a non-verbal language to connect to the current Circumstance, with a recent focus on exploring the frontier between dance and voice (real-time) composition.
He has performed and shown his own work internationally, including Amsterdam venues such as Plein Theater and Frascati. Previously, he was a member of the Beirut Dance Company (Lebanon) and the Pillow Projects Company (Pittsburgh, USA). As a freelancer, he collaborated with artists and researchers in dance, theater, fashion design, photography, film, and philosophy.
In 2024, he starred in award-winning short film Cobalt, a visual philosophical essay on the future relationship between human and non-human. He is also the founder of Impromptu Amsterdam, a platform dedicated to sharing cross-disciplinary improvisational knowledge to and from the community (www.kimbaraka.com/impromptu).
credits
Creation and performance: Kim Baraka
Dramaturgy Assistance: Rebecca Lillich // Krüger
Sound Advising: Ghenwa Noiré
Sound Archiving: Yann Anuri
Production assistance: Selin Yucenbak
Photo Credits: Gemma Rijnders & Aryan Jauregui
Made possible thanks to the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Ettijahat Independent Culture and rehearsal space from Triplets Amsterdam
Produced by Ettijahat, co-funded by the European Union
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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, the artist 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.
Arrive early! An interactive installation can be experienced 15 minutes before the performance starts.
on september 7, THIS PERFORMANCE IS PART OF A DOUBLE BILL. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE INFORMATION.
About the makers
Kim Baraka is a Lebanese-born dance artist and AI scientist based in Amsterdam. His artistic practice centers improvisation as a non-verbal language to connect to the current Circumstance, with a recent focus on exploring the frontier between dance and voice (real-time) composition.
He has performed and shown his own work internationally, including Amsterdam venues such as Plein Theater and Frascati. Previously, he was a member of the Beirut Dance Company (Lebanon) and the Pillow Projects Company (Pittsburgh, USA). As a freelancer, he collaborated with artists and researchers in dance, theater, fashion design, photography, film, and philosophy.
In 2024, he starred in award-winning short film Cobalt, a visual philosophical essay on the future relationship between human and non-human. He is also the founder of Impromptu Amsterdam, a platform dedicated to sharing cross-disciplinary improvisational knowledge to and from the community (www.kimbaraka.com/impromptu).
credits
Creation and performance: Kim Baraka
Dramaturgy Assistance: Rebecca Lillich // Krüger
Sound Advising: Ghenwa Noiré
Sound Archiving: Yann Anuri
Production assistance: Selin Yucenbak
Photo Credits: Gemma Rijnders & Aryan Jauregui
Made possible thanks to the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Ettijahat Independent Culture and rehearsal space from Triplets Amsterdam
Produced by Ettijahat, co-funded by the European Union
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