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Date(s) - 01/18/2024
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

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The Invisible Dog Art Center, Fisher Center at Bard, and Under the Radar Festival are thrilled to present the New York City premiere of Tania El Khoury’s Cultural Exchange Rate

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 militarization 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. One marked by war survival, valueless currency collection, 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 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.

Credits:

Production Design: Petra Abousleiman

Research: Ziad Abu-Rish, May Haider, Mariam Saada, and Alexander Mayagoitia

Sound Design: Fadi Tabbal

Graphic Design: Jana Traboulsi

Live Video Editing: Ali Beidoun

Cinematography: Luke Bryant and Tania El Khoury

Spanish Translation: Ziad Chakaroun

Archives: El Khoury Family Papers (Lebanon and Mexico); Archivo General de la Nación (México); SRE -Acervo Histórico Diplomático (México)

Producer: RR Sigel

Photos: Tania El Khoury & Ziad Abu-Rish.

Tania El Khoury is an artist in residence at the Fisher Center at Bard with lead support from the Mellon Foundation.

Cultural Exchange Rate is a co-commission of the Fisher Center, Spielart Munich, and Onassis Stegi Athens.

Cultural Exchange Rate is produced by the Fisher Center at Bard, and originally premiered in the Fisher Center’s 2019 LAB Biennial: Where No Wall Remains, which received support from the Ford Foundation; Open Society Foundations; Arab Fund for Arts and Culture; Thendara Foundation; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education; The Vilcek Foundation; and the Institute of International Education.