Awoooooo: Sounds of Wolves
A video and sound installation in which Leila Rose Bari traces a groundbreaking concert by the composer Stockhausen in a limestone cave in Lebanon, on the eve of the outbreak of the Second Lebanese Civil War. Leila delves into the archives in search of her grandmother’s figure, whose memory and spirit move between eras and across borders we cannot cross.
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Lebanon, 1969, a period when Beirut was known as the “Paris of the Middle East.” In the Jeita Grotto (مغارة جعيتا), just outside the city, the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen gives a celebratory concert. Among the audience is Rosie Shahin. A few years after the concert, Rosie fled Lebanon’s civil war and moved to Berlin, where she worked in sculpture and joined the punk-feminist movement.
Tel Aviv, Israel, 2017. Leila Rose Bari is stretched out on the sofa after Friday dinner, scrolling through Facebook, when shrieks emerge from her phone: footage of a noise performance in a small basement. Her grandmother Rosie asks: “What is that? It sounds familiar. Once, in Beirut, we went to a concert in a cave with stalactites. Everything was dark, and a huge orchestra played ‘awoooooo,’ like the sounds of wolves.”
Leila Rose Bari is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation, performance, writing, and video. She holds a bachelor’s degree in the Humanities and Social Sciences, studied fine art at Minshar College, and received the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship. She has exhibited in galleries and art centers in Israel and abroad, including Group Motto in Hamburg, the Bat Yam Museum, CCA Tel Aviv, Parterre Gallery, Maya Gallery, Ma’amuta Art Center, Framed Berlin, and others.
Creator Leila Rose Bari
Soundtrack created in collaboration with Christophe Péreuil
Dramaturgy Jonathan Omer Mizrahi
More events within Awoooooo: Sounds of Wolves
09.12 Wednesday 20:30
10.12 Thursday 20:30
“Awoooooo: Sounds of Wolves” is a sound and video work in which a performative lecture takes place once each evening. An actress portraying the artist revisits a hazy childhood memory of a story told by her grandmother, Rosie, who fled Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war.
Performer Mai Naomi Grinshpon
