Project supported as part of the Institut Français' Mediterranean Season 2026.
Creative residency.
Elegy for a Disappearance is a stage performance based on sound dramaturgy.
Designed by three Lebanese artists (Kinda Hassan, Racha Baroud, and Carine Doumit), Élégie d'une disparition explores the question of disappearance within the geographical context of the Mediterranean, both in terms of bodies and territories. Issues related to migration and identity, loss and preservation take different forms and intrude into their collective and personal histories, as evidenced by recent events that have led to even greater fragmentation of identity, socio-politics, and territory.
This project allows them to combine their different working methods around this type of fragmentary material, which is threatened with extinction, and to pool their experiences, knowledge, and artistic skills.
This project is based on field research conducted by three artists from different disciplines. The aim is to create a work of art that highlights the transitions from one territory to another: Lebanon, where disaster repeats itself endlessly; Egypt, the cradle of their culture and an inexhaustible source of inspiration; and finally France, the destination of their migration. Through writing and physical, auditory, visual, and textual metamorphoses, the three artists propose to write a collective and shared narrative based on the traces of memory that persist despite the erasures inflicted on these regions.
Production
GMEM — National Center for Musical Creation; CHRONIQUES — Biennial of Digital Imagination
Partnership
Medrar and Mada Masr (Cairo); Beirut Art Center (Beirut); Certified as part of the Institut Français Saison Méditerranée 2026 program.
Kinda Hassan
Kinda Hassan is a Paris-based composer and artist who works with sound, video, craftsmanship, and software programming. Her works have been presented at various festivals, museums, and art galleries, including the Festival Résonance in Marseille (Mucem), the Festival Propagations (GMEM), Le Mans Sonore (Le Mans Biennale), Cannes, the Berlinale, Oberhausen, Jihlava, Transmediale, La Maréchalerie, Mumok in Vienna, Casa Arabe in Madrid, and other art spaces, festivals, and platforms in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Kinda Hassan obtained a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in 2007 and a Master's degree in Sound Design from the École supérieure d'art et de design (ESAD-TALM) in Le Mans in 2018. In October 2024, she began a doctoral research project on the construction of automated instruments as an electroacoustic compositional practice. She has collaborated as a sound designer and composer on numerous video, film, and performance projects.
Racha Baroud
Racha Baroud is a Lebanese performer and director. In 2015, she directed Today was my birthday in Paris, a musical tribute to Tadeusz Kantor's Theater of Death. In 2020, she co-directed the documentary Ali, Hachem and Khaled with filmmaker Roy Arida. In May 2022, she will present her play What if those tears were not only mine? in Beirut. In 2023, she will begin performative research on the question of erasure with patients at the Malévoz psychiatric hospital in Monthey (Switzerland). She is currently working on her next performance , When adjusted to darkness, your eyes begin to see, in collaboration with composer Kinda Hassan, with whom she forms the duo Deaf-Tones. Since 2019, she has been part of the team at Studio Amalgam, a space dedicated to the performing arts in Beirut.
Carine Doumit
Carine Doumit explores editing as a space for shared creation, a tool and a language for building collective experiences and knowledge. She collaborates on the writing and editing of films, videos, installations, and performances that are presented at various festivals, museums, and art galleries, including FIDMarseille, CPH DOX, The Eye, Beirut Art Center, etc. She writes short texts published in specialized journals or presented in exhibition spaces, as well as short stories published in contemporary art and design fairs. She has been in residence at the Arsenal Archives (Berlin, 2019), the Beirut Art Center (Beirut, 2020), Macdowell (United States, 2021 and 2024), and the Bogliasco Center (Italy, 2025). She shares her experience of writing and editing through workshops at universities and art institutions.
Kinda Hassan
Racha Baroud
Carine Doumit
sound artists