Tell Me What I Can Do
Tania El Khoury (Lebanon / UK)
Gardens Speak has had 30 showings across 5 continents, and many of them have included a special request, with El Khoury asking her audiences to write letters. Here, she offers a selection of them to be uncovered and read. “Tell me what I can do” is a sentence that recurs throughout the handwritten texts, and those six small words reflect so much: empathy and caring, but also anguish, confusion, even desperation.
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Artist Bio
Tania El Khoury (Lebanon / UK)
Tania El Khoury builds her installation and performance work around audience participation—its uses, its dangers and its political power. Her works have been presented in over 30 countries; she is a 2019 Soros Art Fellow and the winner of the 2017 ANTI Festival International Prize for live art.
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Venue
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver
Showtimes
January 28 – February 2
Exhibition Open
12PM – 9.30PM
Tickets
Free. No RSVP Required.
Access
Description Available Upon Request
Deaf & Hard of Hearing Friendly
Credits
CREATOR Tania El Khoury SPACE DESIGNER Abir Saksouk SOUND PIECES Keenana Issa, Mohamed Nour “Abo Gabi” Ahmed, Mohamed Ali “Dali” Agrebi TRANSLATOR Ziad Abu-Rish
COMMISSIONED BY Bryn Mawr College for ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury