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Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation that takes place in trees, in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. With this work, live artist Tania El Khoury explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands. It centres the artist’s complicated relationship with the land – one that holds trauma, mass graves and toxicity, a repository of political struggle, a record of power dynamics and a site of various species migrating for survival. A guided somatic experience for seven people at a time, Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.