Common Threads

Common Threads is a collection of audio and video emanations, inspired by daily encounters from the city streets (cables, private generators, phone sounds, smoke), and sourced from various Whatsapp groups used by Beiruti neighbors to discuss common generators, power cuts, energy supply, and other highly charged matters.

The outcome is a series of stop-motion and collage animation videos, an audio piece created through a collection of mechanical sounds and sayings culled from the Whatsapp group conversations, and a sculptural object, casually placed amongst other organic street objects. The series of interventions becomes another rendering of the now, and perhaps a fragment of future relics.

The video works were done in collaboration with Sateحanimations, and the sound piece with Sary Moussa (Tunefork Studios).