Hadjithomas & Joreige
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. On their show in Beirut, with projects from 1997 to 2012. Beirut Exhibition Center, until 20 April 2012.
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"Sounds of Earth and of Lebanon"
From Lebanese Rocket Society, Elements for a Monument
Video and sound installation
19’
Co-produced by the 11th Biennale de Lyon (2011)
The Golden Record is the last element in the context of The Lebanese Rocket Society. Visually, it is a projection on the floor of a disc, continually turning, and a timeline enumerating the sounds that are diffused in the same space: satellite sounds, alphabets in different languages, a Kaak vendor, a speech of president Nasser in 1967, etc. These heterogeneous tracks echo the sound environment of the 1960s—not only sounds from everyday-life, or the enthusiasm of scientists for their new discoveries, but also the political atmosphere of hope in pan-arabism.
© Photo: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. On their show in Beirut, with projects from 1997 to 2012. Beirut Exhibition Center, until 20 April 2012.