A residency focused on listening to sound recordings made in the field in Tunisia and Turkey during previous residencies, with initial edits for a sound installation scheduled for October 2026.

"Criées – Rites of the Mediterranean Coast " is an artistic research project exploring ritual traditions, cultural transmission, and memories that flow from one side of the Mediterranean to the other.

Based on fieldwork conducted among communities of African descent in Turkey and Tunisia focusing on the Dana Baïrami and Stambeli rituals, the project explores the following questions: How do these rituals survive major upheavals? How do they adapt or disguise themselves in order to survive? How do they disappear? How do they reemerge, and for what reasons?

Through sound recordings, songs, stories, and live performances, *Criées* seeks to capture the voices, silences, and calls that echo from one region to another.

Through an approach that combines field research, listening, and creativity, Criées also seeks to honor those whose voices were silenced in the middle of the Mediterranean, while exploring what, despite everything, continues to circulate, resist, and sing.

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Biography(s)
Auctions — Rituals Along the Mediterranean Coast
Alexandra Satger, Chloé Despax, Julien Marchaisseau
Residence
Tue., May 26 + Wed., May 27, 2026
Distribution

Chloé Despax
radio writer, composer, and sound artist

Julien Marchaisseau
, director of the Rara Woulib Company

Alexandra Satger
composer, choir director

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