As part of the opening night of CHRONIQUES — The Biennial of Digital Imaginaries.
Project supported as part of the Institut Français’s Saison Méditerranée 2026.
Created by three Lebanese artists—Kinda Hassan (composer), Racha Baroud (performer), and Carine Doumit (writer and editor)— *Élégie d’une disparition* is a performance based on a sound-driven narrative that explores the disappearance of memory, bodies, and territories in the Mediterranean region.
The work is composed of fragments of sound, visual, and textual material, drawn from field research conducted in Marseille, Cairo, and Beirut. It draws as much from the personal stories of each individual as from collective history, and these fragments function as traces of memory that resist the erasure inflicted upon these regions.
On stage, the artists take turns and come together to use these fragments to create scenes that blend imagery, voices, movement, and electroacoustic compositions.
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.
Friche la Belle de Mai (the Module)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
Duration
, approximately 50 min.
Kinda Hassan
, musician
Racha Baroud
, performer
Carine Doumit
: text, editing
Christian Sebille
, musician