Cultural Exchange Rate: Tania El Khoury
Cultural Exchange Rate is an interactive live art project in which artist Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria. One marked by war survival, valueless currency collection, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards the colonial and national borders.
The audience is invited to immerse their heads into one family’s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.
Cultural Exchange Rate is based on the artist’s recorded interviews with her late grandmother, oral histories collected in her village in Akkar, the discovery of lost relatives in Mexico City, and the family’s attempt to secure dual citizenship.
:::Presented as part of Take Me Somewhere 2025.
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● Please arrive 15 minutes before the time indicated on your ticket● The performance will start on time. We cannot accommodate late arrivals. ● If you arrive after your ticketed show has begun (and are thus unable to participate in that show), front-of-house will do their best to get you admission to a later show. ● Please bring cash - especially small bills and coins. Exchange of cash is an (optional) part of the show but we strongly encourage audience members to have cash on hand so they can choose to participate in that way within the installation. Please note: Cash used during the performance will not be returned to audience members. ● The duration of the performance is about 60 minutes● Tickets are strictly limited. If you purchase a ticket and are unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible so that your ticket can be transferred to someone on the waitlist.
Tania El Khoury is a live artist whose work focuses on audience interactivity and its political potential. She creates installations and performances in which the audience is a witness and an active collaborator. Tania’s work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 32 countries across 6 continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. She is the recipient of a Soros Art Fellowship, the Bessies Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award.
Tania is the director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College in New York. She holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. She is associated with Forest Fringe collective of artists in the UK and is a co-founder of Dictaphone Group in Lebanon, a research and live art collective aiming at questioning our relationship to the city and its public spaces.
Organiser of Cultural Exchange Rate: Tania El Khoury
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