An enveloping vocal work spanning weekly radio broadcasts and the contemplative space of the gallery, “chronicling the tunnel’s eternal return to debt” conveys artist BINT mbareh’s research on Palestinian ways of knowing to Treaty 1 territory. In this work, sound is both communicative content and a medium of passage, transgressing colonial borders and discrete bodies as a wave. 

BINT mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in palestine. her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. she challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.

She has brought her work to the Tate Modern, Cafe Oto, Savvy Contemporary, Unsound Festival in Krakow, the Lincoln Centre, B7L9 (Tunis), Darat Al-Funun (Amman), and (as cofounder) Ramallah’s Exist Festival and Qattan Foundation. She has also exhibited installation work at the Royal Botanical gardens in Edinburgh, Sharjah Biennial,  and her work has been acquired by the Irish Museum of Contemporary Arts.