Let the Song Hold Us, a major exhibition of new immersive works exploring how music and song shape who we are, has opened at FACT.
Let The Song Hold Us is a collection of artworks that reach between generations, and across geographic boundaries. Audiences will be immersed in a new exhibition of artworks that explore the ways song shapes who we are.
Let The Song Hold Us brings together film, music, dance, technology, and performance to uncover powerful stories of family, hope and togetherness through a series of unique, artistic worlds that share intimate stories and a sense of belonging. Visitors will be among the first to experience this new large-scale video installation that responds to a desire to heal the mind and body, and reconnect to life.
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Some of the artists commissioned for this exhibition include - Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind - who present a new triptych video installation of an Arabic-language opera that brings together Palestinian and European classical music traditions. "As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night" is presented as a single aria, sung by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish, to tell a story of loss, mourning, and inherited trauma.
Alongside its display at FACT, audiences are invited to experience the opera live next month at the University of Liverpool’s Tung Auditorium, part of the brand new Yoko Ono Lennon Centre. The opera will be performed to an audience for the first time at the state-of-the-art concert hall against the backdrop of Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind’s film. The performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.
Let the Song Hold Us is part of Radical Ancestry, FACT’s current programme which looks at how our sense of belonging is shaped by the histories, geographies, biology and culture we inherit. Through a series of exhibitions, projects, artist residencies and events, the programme aims to question how technology can help us to explore a new way of thinking and experimenting with who we are.
