Artist Nour Sokhon's project explores the complexities of the experience of exile and emigration through sound research in which the trajectories of migratory birds become a metaphor for the Lebanese diaspora. Sounds from the soundscape of her hometown - Beirut - are mixed with bird recordings from the city she has been living in for the past two years: Berlin. These sound sources are composed by manipulating and amplifying in real time objects linked to the experience of exile, such as the documents required by the European Union from Lebanese citizens to enter its territory. An approach that is both intimate and political, combining personal experience and social commitment through interdisciplinary experimentation with materials, sounds and images.

Following a first stage of creation in Athens, in the Knossos Theater, for the Electric Nights festival organized by Medea Electronique, the artist wishes to develop this work and conceive a multidimensional work with still and moving image projections, a lighting device, further field recordings and a more accomplished performative work. The project aims to incorporate other levels of research, based on the following questions: how does an individual manage his or her identity and collective memory if most of the artifacts from his or her country of origin have disappeared due to war, natural disaster, or both? How do people in conditions of migration manage the physical space in which they find themselves, if they have to abandon the spaces that encompassed most of their childhood? How do people from other cultures living in Europe manage their spatial memories?...