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.

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Elegy for a disappearance
Kinda Hassan, Racha Baroud, Carine Doumit
Residence
Tue, May 12 — Sun, May 24, 2026
Distribution

Kinda Hassan
Racha Baroud
Carine Doumit

sound artists

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