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Gardens Speak at NYUAD Arts Center

Gardens Speak at NYUAD Arts Center - Coming Soon in UAE
27 April - 30 April 2018 02:00 PM - 10:00 PM

The performance of Interactive Sound Installation Gardens Speak will take place from 27th to 30th of April 2018 at the NYUAD Arts Center, Abu Dhabi.

Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves may have recounted it. They are compiled with found audio that evidences their final moments. Working with the friends and family of the deceased, the stories have been carefully constructed to be retold as they themselves may have recounted it.

An interactive sound installation sharing oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens.

“even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.” – Walter Benjamin

Across Syria, many gardens conceal the dead bodies of activists and protesters who adorned the streets during the early periods of the uprising. These domestic burials play out a continuing collaboration between the living and the dead. The dead protect the living by not exposing them to further danger at the hands of the regime. The living protect the dead by conserving their identities, telling their stories, and not allowing their deaths to become instruments to the regime.

Organized by: NYUAD Arts Center
Venue: The Red Theater, NYUAD Arts Center, Abu Dhabi
Tickets: Adult – AED 52.50; Student (with valid ID) – AED 26.25
Admission: 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM

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NYUAD Arts Center - Coming Soon in UAE
NYUAD Arts Center - Coming Soon in UAE
NYUAD Arts Center
The NYUAD Arts Center is a new beacon of inspiration at New York University Abu Dhabi where performance, education, and community come together in a vibrant, state of the art setting to enrich the cultural life of both the campus and the city.
Abu Dhabi Saadiyat Island, New York University Abu Dhabi

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