KORKUT2026

Rites
of Eternal Wind

Il Korkut Sonic Arts Triennale

Dedicated to sound and listening, the Triennale creates a space for a wide range of sonic practices without restricting them by institutional boundaries. Over the course of two months, Rites of Eternal Wind will host sound installations and live events, listening sessions and soundwalks, hybrid lectures, discussions and workshops, somatic performances and explorations of sonic rituals and environments where sound is absent or even impossible.

Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture

Noor Abed

Biography‍

Noor Abed (b. 1988) is a Palestinian artist working across performance and film, often bringing the two into dialogue within her practice. She examines notions of social choreography and collective formations, combining elements of the “staged” and the “documentary.”

Through processes of image-making, she creates situations in which social possibilities are both rehearsed and performed. Her cinematic language draws on elements of magical realism, and her films evoke richly symbolic atmospheres in which time appears fluid, continually renewing and reimagining myth.However, this symbolism is not detached from reality: Noor’s work reveals a deep connection between the body and memory, where dance and song function not merely as forms of expression but as vehicles for transmitting shared histories and resistance, in which movement and improvisation are necessities rather than choices. For her, filmmaking is communal — it must remain connected to the land and its people.

She received her BA from the International Academy of Arts in Palestine and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, and has participated in numerous international residencies and fellowships, including programs in Maine, Paris, Dakar, and at documenta in Kassel. In 2016, she was awarded the March Project residency and commission from Sharjah Art Foundation. In 2020, she co-founded, together with Lara Khaldi, the School of Intrusions, an educational platform based in Ramallah, Palestine.

A Night We Held Between
‍Film (2024)

As part of Korkut Shorts, a special film program of the Triennale, A Night We Held Between emerges from a recording of a resistance song found in the archive of the Palestinian Folk Art Center. Using “Song for the Fighters” as a starting point, Noor Abed shot the film in ancient sites across Palestine — its caves, carved openings, underground passages, and wild valleys — so that the land itself becomes the main character.

By situating the narratives within centuries-old infrastructure, she stages the transformation of rituals that move beyond the surface of visibility to reveal a vast, hidden world that mirrors the one we know. Throughout the film, scenes intertwine rituals and narratives of community and resistance with everyday representations of social life in Palestine, emphasizing the role of collective rhythmic movement and the potential impact that shared emotions can have in creating and sustaining a community.
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The Whisperer says:

‍“Moving against the wind is always harder than moving with it, but muscles also have memory — and they teach the body to put down new roots amidst the tension.”