Bundanon

Maissa Alameddine is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist, vocalist, performer, and creative producer working across a range of mediums.

Maissa’s work explores the idea of migration as a chronic injury. Maissa inherited her voice from a long line of women vocalists, she uses voice as a provocation and a response. Her work is personal, exploring inheritance and transference of heritage in the complexity of what is coined by Lebanese Australian anthropologist, Ghassan Hage as the ‘lenticular diasporic existence’. Her interpretive song and music is an attempt to honour her ancestors.

Maissa Alameddine now lives and works on the unceded lands of the Cammeraygal and Dharug peoples.

In Residence at Bundanon

The ‘chronic injury of migration’, as described by renowned professor of anthropology Lebanese-Australian academic Ghassan Hage, is common to those who leave their homelands because they had no choice.

Healing from this chronic injury – experienced by myself and the Diasporic communities that ground and surround me – has been the sustained focus of my art practice. Singing and vocalisations have enabled me to reach in and reach out.

After years of exploring the sonics of grief, this residency will enable me to explore a project on the sonics of healing. I see healing as relational, and I want to explore the sonics of healing in collective sharing. This residency will inspire the development of new sound works and recordings centred on provocations for healing.