Sound and image installation
"Je pense à toi 2" Thinking of you

Eight women are associated with this artistic project.
Creative workshop: from January to April 2010, in the 17th arrondissement (Paris)
The installation will be shown on 27 and 28 June at the Bouffes du Nord theatre.

In "Thinking of You" Siwa works with women of North African origin usually cut off from the cultural scene and whose relationship with society is problematic, giving them the opportunity to interact with contemporary artists.
By working to involve the women closely and by combining social issues and aesthetic experiences, the project frees art from its usually settings. By developing critical thinking, it both introduces a collective recognition of the necessity of art and attributes political legitimacy to involvement in its creation.
For this artistic experience that will last three months, women will be given a sound recorder to record the sounds of their private sphere (in their homes), and subsequently have others listen to their experiences. The recorded materials will then be shared during the experimental workshops the women participate in. A portrait of each woman will be produced, to be filmed in their building stairwell and to last three minutes, which is the length of the electric timer on the light.
Based on this work, a sound and image installation (the women in sounds and images) will be produced for audiences.