Stone Tape
Site specific documentary sound installation, 2018-2019
ABOVE: excerpts of on-site documentation of the installation as installed at the Dimitri Hanna house on Disraeli 13 St, the current headquarters of the Israeli Psychoanalytical Society.
Stone Tape is a site-specific / site-related, documentary sound installation. Visitors are invited to employ tactile, directional, electromagnetic listening devices similar to the ones used for phone tapping or ghost detection to hear voices and sounds addressing an occupied home's memory, repression and trauma. These conversations are made all the more poignant by the fact that the home, built in the 1920s by a prominent Palestinian clerk in the British colonial government, has long served as the Israeli Psychoanalytical Society's headquarters. A key component of the project is a recent letter written by Hanna’s granddaughter, addressed to the house’s current inhabitants.
The project was commissioned and supported by Manofim Festival, Jerusalem / Al-Quds, curated by Lee Hee Shulov and Rinat Edelstein.
