
Memory of Birds: Norfolk and Norwich Festival
16 May - 18 May 2024Memory of Birds is a story of bird migration, survival and connection to land. It also refers to experiences of surviving war and colonial trauma.
Tickets: £7.50 - £16.00
Every hour between 11am-4pm on Thursday 16 May – Saturday 18 May.
Memory of Birds: Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Immerse yourself in a guided sensory experience. Memory of Birds is an interactive sound installation from artist Tania El Khoury.
The work takes place in trees, and is made in collaboration with a trauma therapist and migrating birds. As a guided somatic experience, it explores political violence that literally and figuratively gets buried in contested lands.
Memory of Birds is a work that eats itself, designed to be forgotten.
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 collaborator. Tania’s work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 32 countries, in spaces ranging from national museums to small boats in the Mediterranean Sea.
Image credit: Memory of Birds. Photo: Maria Baranova
Important information
Venue: Sainsbury Centre Sculpture Park
Age guidance: 14+
Duration: 45 minutes
Access: This experience requires participants to be able to lie flat for 30 minutes in a hammock-like structure, suspended approximately 2′ off the ground. One step is required to transfer to the structure. If you have any questions on access please contact us on scva@uea.ac.uk or 01603 593199
Parking: Our car park opposite the main entrance gets full at busy times. If there is no space available, please use the West car park. Please park up and then register your car at Gallery Reception as usual. If you don’t mind having a short walk to the Centre, please consider using West car park first to allow other visitors to park closer to us.