Liquid Lands

Collaborative audiovisual project By Busher Kanj & Akram Al Halabi. The project presented as part of Mediterranean Seasons by the French Institute, and Sound of Place by The Wonder Cabinet, and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. 2026.

Liquid Lands is a sound and video art project that takes its title as both a metaphor and a condition. It examines a world shaped by technological acceleration and globalization, where movement has become constant and boundaries increasingly permeable. Within this flow, materials, goods, and people circulate endlessly, reshaping how place and belonging are understood.

At the heart of the project is cultural migration, not simply as the movement of individuals, but as the displacement of histories, memories, and identities. In this sense, land itself becomes fluid: no longer fixed to geography. Place is internalized, fragmented, transformed into something mobile, and continuously, compelled by necessity is carried by those who move and reassembled across different contexts.

This audiovisual work is based on documented archival scenes and field recordings from the artists’ home land, a region shaped by the contradictory of stillness and unrest. The project approaches its sonic and visual sources as sensory material rather than as documentary or archival evidence. These materials form the basis for the video art, animation, and sound compositions.