The project comprised the first UK exhibition of Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme's major work, 'May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth', in the form of an exhibition accompanied by a live performance by the artists.
The project foregrounds Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s remarkable personal archive of found video clips and ephemeral recorded footage, collected by the artists since the early 2010s and the beginning of the Arab Revolutions. Posted online and on social media by ordinary people living in and around Palestine, Iraq and Syria, the video clips, often ad hoc and recorded on mobile devices, focus on song, dance, protest and performance – affirmative acts of vocalisation and physical gesture.
The exhibition comprised a multi-screen audio visual installation, presented in the central hall of a former school building in Glasgow. The installation - 'Only sounds that tremble through us' was accompanied by a live performance by the artists on 10th September, entitled 'an echo buried, buried but calling still'. The project has been commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and the DIA Art Foundation, New York City,
