*When Adjusted to Darkness* is a performance built around a sound composition that explores the resonances and contradictions within Kinda Hassan and Racha Baroud as they grapple with the questions raised by war and exile.

"We are meeting in France in September 2024, at a time when Israel’s aggression against Palestine and Lebanon is escalating dramatically. The war is forcing us to confront our identities, our choices to go into exile, and the impact these events are having on the most intimate aspects of our lives."

Accompanied by an automated instrument—part machine, part musical instrument—the piece uses sound, voice, and physical and mechanical movement to evoke the impressions and images of current events that we consume en masse, and which consume us.

*When Adjusted to Darkness* is conceived as a moment of pause, a breath of respite amid the inexorable march of history. In it, we create a dense and fragile space, a suspended interstice at the heart of the powerlessness and loss imposed upon us by our times. Mirroring the lives we try to build as our inner worlds crumble and rise again, the performance seeks to capture the resonance and dissonance between moments of surrender, tension, and yet, despite everything, grace.

*Title inspired by Bushra Khalfan’s poetry collection *What Was Missing for Us to Become a Home?*