Tentatively titled “A Fragile Chorus of Voices (Buenos Aires)”, the final work will comprise a series of intimate and anonymous recordings of people singing a cappella. The singings will be recorded in Buenos Aires and sourced from individuals belonging to the various communities composing the city. 

This project follows a series of two similar projects. “The Wind Will Carry Us” was produced in 2016 and comprised a series of recordings of people singing in their mother tongues – in Dari, Farsi, and Kurdish. The work was recorded in a village located in Southern Germany and focused on the moment of shared intimacy that exists beyond language between someone singing and someone listening.

Building upon these conceptual grounds, I was invited by the Darat al Funun, a key contemporary art institution in Jordan, to develop a similar work. Titled “A Fragile Chorus of Voices”, this work was conducted over a period of six weeks in Amman. There, the singings were understood as means to reflect upon the geopolitical, social, and postcolonial context of the Levant.

In Buenos Aires, the work will be conducted over a period of four to five weeks in collaboration with BIENALSUR and local non-governmental and cultural organizations. Presented as a sound installation, the project is intended as a participatory survey of the voices of Buenos Aires. Brought together, the singings will speak about the diversity of a city and reflect upon its socio-economic realities.