In November of 2017, people from across Beirut came to the National Museum and gave their voices to a number of objects in the collection. The people spoke to and for and about these objects from the past, and, in doing so, they revealed fragments of the present. They did not attempt to disclose a particular historical narrative. Nor did they attempt to create a fiction. They did not lie and they did not try to tell the truth.
Chou Hayda is an audio work commissioned by BEMA, in collaboration with TEMPORARY . ART . PLATFORM,
with the partnership of the Ministry of Culture / Directorate General of Antiquities and The National Museum of Beirut.
Curator: Amanda Abi Khalil | Sound design & sound project collaborator: Nadim Mishlawi, DB Studios.