Chada Halwani is an independent artist working within several collaborative constellations. Her work uses various media, Including performance, installation and sound art. In her work, she develops a critical understanding of how contemporary art and culture relate to global politics, such as geopolitics and migration, and the impact of these movements and displacements on the creation and manipulation of a collective memory. She is particularly interested in themes that question how the sensitive body can prolong and generate objects of memory, contemplating the relationship between place and body memory. Halwani holds an MA In New Media at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle – Dance Intensive training at TanzFabrik Berlin and a BA in Graphic Design from the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Project: Voices, Accents and Territory (Research phase)
Type: Presentation and performance- Conceived by the “Rareca” association
Place: Erica Library of Capaccio Paestum, Italy
Date: June 2023 more information
In June 2023 and part of the art residency program that was organized and conceived by the “Rareca” association as part of Third edition of “Erratica”, Keep the Sea, I was invited to present my work in process on the project Voices, Accents and Territory. In the residency, I worked on listening to the news archives and a mapping how they documented the displacements that occurred in the south of Lebanon in the year 1982 when many people fled the South to escape the invasion. In the presentation, I shared and commented on the location of archives, places of transcription, preservation, and data collection, and when documents are displaced out of their content, out of their habitat, for the sake of their preservation. The material I shared did not present a narrative about the political and historical aspects of the event of war but showcased a critical examination of how to find a document, how to listen to it, and how to stay with its remains of content, habitat of things, its imperfections, broken parts, that represent the traces of different layers of history.
