An elegy for a disappearance

41 rue Jobin, 13003 Marseille, France

Elegy for a disappearance is a live performance built on a sonic dramaturgy. Imagined by three Lebanese artists, Kinda Hassan (composer), Racha Baroud (performer) and Carine Doumit (writer and editor), this creation questions the notion of disappearance, both at the level of bodies and territories, in the Mediterranean space. Based on fieldwork conducted in Marseille, Cairo and Beirut, the project draws from the passages from one territory to another: Lebanon where the catastrophe repeats endlessly, Egypt, a cultural cradle and inexhaustible source of inspiration…