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
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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:
Interactive Live Art by: Tania El Khoury
Production Design: Petra Abousleiman
Producer: RR Sigel
Audience Guide: Nour Annan
Sound Design: Fadi Tabbal
Graphic Design: Jana Traboulsi
Video Editing: Ali Beidoun
Photo Credit: 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.
Tania El Khoury is a live artist whose work focuses on audience interactivity and its political potential. She creates installations and performances in which the audience is a witness and an active collaborator. Tania’s work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 32 countries across 6 continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. She is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Soros Art Fellowship, the Bessies Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award. Tania is Distinguished Artist in Residence of Theater & Performance and the Director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College in New York. She holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. She is associated with Forest Fringe collective of artists in the UK and is a co-founder of the urban research and live art collective, Dictaphone Group in Lebanon.
The Fisher Center at Bard develops, produces, and presents performing arts across disciplines through new productions and context-rich programs. As a premier professional performing arts center and a hub for research and education, the Fisher Center supports artists, students, and audiences in the development and examination of artistic ideas, offering perspectives from the past and present, as well as visions of the future.
UNDER THE RADAR
The 19th edition of UNDER THE RADAR, NYC's world famous and cutting-edge theater festival still directed by its founder Mark Russell and now produced by ArKtype, takes place January 5 to January 21 with more than a dozen productions at partner institutions across the city, including Abrons Arts Center, BAM, Chelsea Factory, Fisher Center at Bard, Invisible Dog Art Center, Japan Society, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Mabou Mines, New York Live Arts | Live Artery, NYU Skirball Center, Performance Space New York, St. Ann's Warehouse, and Theatre for a New Audience. In addition to a selection of New York, US, and North American premiere performance runs, the 2024 edition of Under the Radar will also include a Symposium/Gathering on January 12 in collaboration with IPC (International Presenting Commons), CIPA (Creative & Independent Producer Alliance), and HowlRound discussing the obstacles facing American artists and the presentation of international work; Coming Attractions at Chelsea Factory on January 13, connecting brave new works with essential support, a series of encounters with new works-in-progress; and the 7-day Atelier for Young Festival Managers New York.
Presented in partnership with:
Under the Radar, Mark Russell, Festival Director
Under the Radar Festival Producer: ArKtype, Thomas O. Kriegsmann, President and
Sami Pyne, Producing Director
More information at utrfest.org
Calendar
Cultural Exchange Rate is a performance with ticketed timed entries
Thursday: 12pm / 1:30pm / 3pm / 5:30pm / 7pm
Friday: 12pm / 1:30pm / 3pm / 5:30pm / 7pm / 8:30pm
Saturday: 12pm / 1:30pm / 3pm / 5:30pm / 7pm / 8:30pm
Sunday: 12pm / 1:30pm / 3pm / 5:30pm / 7pm
Duration:
50 minutes
Admission:
$20
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Location:
51 Bergen St