Voice Of The Invisibles

Location

Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

Characteristics

How the audience/participants were reached or discovered

Amal, Fayçal, Caroline, Wadih, Khaled, Élies, Hana, Lina, Marie, Michel, Muhamad and Yussef are between 13 and 75 years old. Most of them are Syrians or Lebanese originally Syrians, and they allow us to hear their stories. Family life, love story, present reality, sad statement, testimony, each of them has lived a drama, a tragedy, each of them carry a scar, alive or asleep, connected to the reality of this region. These people testify about a reality they’re not controlling anymore…

How it was done

How

Exhibitions

Voice Of The Invisibles
installation
2013
twelve analog phones are hanged on a wall.
The phones are connected to a telephone exchanger linked to a computer with a specific software that triggers the calls.The software manages 4 calls simultaneously.
During the time of the installation, the phones ring, the spectator picks up… He’s suddenly immersed in the voice of a person who tells his story, testify about moments of his life.

 

Interviews

 

Sound

 

Results

Main lessons learned

Credits

Dr. Shafic Mokbel
Camille Brunel
BJCEM
Institut du Monde Arabe

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