Sound Workshop with Nour Sokhon

Meeting point: Westhafen S-bahn exit by the lift on Putlitzbrücke
Google Coordinates: S+U Westhafen

Registration is full! Sign ups will be added to a wait list.
Registration required via anmeldung@ngbk.de (25 participants max)

Harbouring Voices is a sound workshop exploring Westhafen as a site of movement, memory, and containment. Containers, designed to enable transit, also obscure and confine – mirroring broader tensions around migration, borders, and urban belonging.

The workshop will begin with a two-hour walk around the harbour site, sharing stories, collectively discussing, exploring the surroundings, and gathering sounds along the way. Afterwards, we’ll head to the rooftop of ZK/U, overlooking the harbour, to continue the conversation through a collective sonic orchestral moment where we all produce a short recording together. Following this, we will have a moment to share reflections together over snacks and refreshments.

Recordings from the workshop will be developed into a sound piece for the TRACES part of the Dissident Paths program by the artist. Participants of the workshop can choose to remain anonymous or be fully credited for their contributions for all the different possible iterations of the final product.

Nour Sokhon is a Lebanese artist based in Berlin. Her practice explores artistic research through interviews, field recordings, and site-specific interventions, which she translates into sound compositions, performances, interactive installations, and moving image works. In 2017, she completed People on Sound, a documentary for her Master’s in Sound for the Moving Image at the Glasgow School of Art. In 2019, she received the Emerging Artist Prize at the Sursock Museum in Lebanon for her moving image piece Revisiting: Hold Your Breath and was awarded the Sound Art 2020 scholarship by Lower Saxony and the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. Her debut solo album, Beirut Birds, was digitally released in 2024 with support from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC. She has exhibited internationally and performed at festivals such as Network Music Festival (2020), This Is Not Lebanon (2021), Punkt Festival (2023), Gaudeamus Festival (2023), United in Grief (2024), Vorspiel (2024), and Biennale d’Aix (2024). Sokhon’s work has been featured at institutions such as the Spatial Sound Institute, Beirut Art Center, SAVVY Contemporary, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Kunsthaus Hamburg, and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter.

Part of PATH 2: TRESPASS & TRANSIT (on migration and access)
With contributions by Alternative Monument, Nour Sokhon, Minh Duc Pham, Project In/Visibility (Samirah Siddiqui & Tasnim Elboute)

To be in motion is at the core of migration, dislocation, and displacement — a quiet unraveling from a once-known ground. Such movements can be chosen or forced, desired or inevitable. These movements may be voluntary or forced, driven by hope, necessity, or survival. Borders, both visible and invisible, dictate who moves freely and who must trespass.

This Path explores movement as both lived experience and political condition. The contributions consider what a monument to migration in public space might look like (Alternative Monument); the revisiting of a former refugee camp of East German citizens through the act of collecting flowers (Minh Duc Pham); containers in a harbor as symbol of motion and vessels of emotion through sound (Nour Sokhon); and the urgency of decolonial engagement by walking a colonial site, addressing the erasure of Palestinian solidarity and the limits of remembrance culture in Berlin. (Project In/Visibility).