Durrës

Especially for the Art Explora Festival artist Zaineb Henchiri creates a performance that incorporates her recent research with existing performative elements in her practice. In her performances Henchiri creates different personas that function as alter egos of the artists as well characters she has encountered online and in her daily life. Echo Chamber is a performative reading accompanied by visual projections. The performance questions the ability to have a distinct voice within the contemporary realm of technological and political changes. Shadows Durres works as a repository of a patchwork of phrases left on the internet, messages shared with the artists, and available tutorials.

"Words on Streets" is a short film featuring five immigrants from Genoa, Italy, who, in collaboration with members of immigrant communities in Paris, Genoa and New York, have created manifestos about nationality, citizenship and belonging.

All three soloists are specialists in their fields: Marine Sablonnière in medieval music, Henri Tournier in North Indian music, and Isabelle Courroy in the pastoral music of the Balkans and Anatolia, deploying the concept of oblique music that brings together music of creation and tradition. The result is a conversation that links times and places, genres and aesthetics. To the audience's delight, their joyful, multi-faceted music takes us beyond the boundaries of time and space.

Curated by Albanian filmmaker Iris Elezi, Silent Mediterranean offers a rare cine-concert immersive experience featuring unique hand-tinted silent film travelogues from the Mediterranean region (1910–1927).