Gardens Speak

Theatre installation Gardens Speak by Tania El Khoury, programmed in Holland Festival 2016.
Buried beneath the earth are the stories of ten ordinary Syrians. In her sound installation, the Lebanese-British artist Tania El Khoury invites her audience to dig in the soil to hear their stories. Using oral histories and found sound material, she reconstructed how they lost their lives in the early days of the uprising against the repressive Assad regime, and how they were buried in unmarked graves in gardens across Syria. Gardens Speak is a moving account of the lives and untimely deaths of ten Syrians. It is a poignant commentary on life and death, revealing individual stories behind the death toll.