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Je d’histoires (2006-2007)

Interactive Multimedia Installation

View of ‘Je d’histoires’ in ‘Foreword’ (The Lebanese Pavilion) Venice biennale, 2007.

View of ‘Je d’histoires’ in ‘Foreword’ (The Lebanese Pavilion) Venice biennale, 2007. © Photo: Haupt & Binder

View of ‘Je d’histoires’ in ‘Foreword’ (The Lebanese Pavilion) Venice biennale, 2007.

View of ‘Je d’histoires’ in ‘A strange feeling of familiarity’, Espace Kettaneh, Beirut, 2007.

Still from Je d’histoires

Je d’histoires (2006-2007)

Interactive Multimedia Installation
Commissioned for the Lebanese pavilion in Venice Biennial (2007)
Conceived, written and produced by: Lamia Joreige
Software and interface by: Tarek Atoui
Music by: Discipline, Charbel Haber & Whisky Matador (Tarek Atoui)

‘Je d’histoires’ plays multiple stories. Visitors are invited to construct their own visual story from an array of video images, texts and music. They become actors in the narrative process, each time renewing it.

Among the videos presented are landscapes, urban views of Beirut and Super 8 found footage. The texts are letters about love and war. The music features sounds playing on repetition, melodious tunes, and lyrical sequences.

The presence of the visitor is recorded through a microphone and its sound stored into a database to be later transformed and re-injected randomly – like an irruption or a ghost sound, during the playing of a sequence. The visitor affects the playing: If they produce loud sounds while watching, they will provoke the disintegration of the image. Hence, their presence becomes imprinted in the sequence, making it unique.

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