But My Head Is Still Singing…
- AboutBut My Head Is Still Singing, 2022 Part 6 of I Stared At Beauty So Much project Treated glass, 2 videos HD 20 mins loop Facing catastrophe, Orpheus comes to mind, as a haunting figure. Heartbroken after the death of Eurydice, he is dismembered by the furious Maenads and his body is scattered all over. But his head, alone, continues to sing.
As our exhausted voices attempt to do… Fragments of poems around Orpheus from Virgil, Ovid, Tristan l’Hermite, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Victor Hugo, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Jean-Charles Leconte, Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl, Etel Adnan, Ingeborg Bachmann. Voices: Haig Aivasian, Youmna Bou Hadir, Patrick Chackar, Joana Hadjithomas, Charbel Kamel, Rasha Salti, Lama Sawaya.
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