the sound of your voice is home: Yasmine Nasser Diaz in Conversation with Ikram Lakhdhar

Yasmine Nasser Diaz builds an affective world by and for the South West Asian and North African diaspora and beyond. In her multimedia installation the sound of your voice is home (TSOYVIH), she turns oral communications between distant loved ones into an immersive soundscape. Cassette tapes sent between her family in Yemen and Chicago inspired this nostalgic installation of ritualized correspondence to document the evolving ways diasporic communities maintain connectivity and share memories, shedding light on how art and stories migrate through cultures, time, and space.
Following a video screening of TSOYVIH, Diaz will be joined in conversation with curator Ikram Lakhdhar to explore the artist's role as an archivist of the immigrant experience, preserving intergenerational exchanges through collecting and storytelling.
After the talk and throughout the afternoon, attendees are invited to the Getty Research Institute for a reception and to record their own traditions of familial communication, contributing to a growing collection of diaspora soundbites.
This event occurred on Mar 12, 2023.
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