Center for Civic Engagement Presents
Cultural Exchange Rate - Tania El Khoury
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
6:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Backstage6:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5
LAB Commission / U.S. Premiere
The cruelest of borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life: the death traps set within a moving body of water and the concealed militarisation of faraway border villages. Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria; marked by war survival, valueless currency collections, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards the colonial and national borders.
The audience is invited to immerse their heads into one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
Cultural Exchange Rate is co-commissioned by the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.
Sponsored by: Live Arts Bard.
For more information, call 845-758-7900, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/cultural-exchange-rate/.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater