Cultural Exchange Rate at Take Me Somewhere 2025 in Glasgow
Take Me Somewhere is an international, biennial festival and year-round sector support organisation that exists to position Scotland as the place to create and EXPERIENCE radical performance. Take Me Somewhere 2025 will take place 15–26 October in the city of Glasgow. The cruellest 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 militarisation 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 the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.