Remembrance
Live performance and sound installation, 2025–ongoingRemembrance is a live performance developed by Dalia Jacobs in collaboration with sound designer Andi Dhima. At its foundation is a sound composition by Dhima, shaped through an exchange between both artists and carrying Jacobs’ recorded voice. On stage, Jacobs enters the composition again through her live body and voice.
Within the performance, Jacobs constructs a dialogue from carefully selected lines by Fairuz and public speeches by Abu Obaida, spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing. Fairuz speaks of homeland through poetry, longing, love, and return; Abu Obaida speaks through the direct political and military language of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Their registers are radically different, yet both return to land, loss, resistance, and liberation.
One sings toward liberation; the other declares it.
Their encounter comes from a familiar Palestinian soundscape. Fairuz accompanies the morning through radios, kitchens, and cars. Soon after, the television is turned on and the news enters the same room. Poetry and political reality coexist within the everyday, sometimes separated by only a few minutes.
Jacobs brings this coexistence onto the stage. The selected lines begin to answer one another while her body moves through the composition without fixed choreography. Albania and Palestine also meet through Dhima and Jacobs’ collaboration—not as equivalent histories, but as distinct experiences carried into the same act of listening.
The recorded performance later found another life in Hebron, Palestine, entering an installation by artist Izz Al-Jabari. Removed from the theatre and placed within a new spatial context, Remembrance continued through another body of work, another audience, and within the landscape from which much of its memory emerges.
Memory here does not remain in the past. It moves—from the radio to the television, from the body to the stage, and from the stage back into the landscape.
Presented
HELMCA Festival — Ioannina, Greece, 2025
Umbra Festival — Athens, Greece, 2026
Sound design and composition
Andi Dhima
Related work
Before the Poem — Izz Al-Jabari, Hebron, Palestine
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