An audio-visual installation and community archive by Kadir Karababa exploring how music carries memory and identity across borders, featuring songs and stories from women with migration or sanctuary experiences.
Kadir Karababa's One Song is on at Fabrica from 9 October to 28 October, an audio-visual installation and community archive that looks at how music carries memory and identity across borders. Karababa is a British-Turkish artist whose work often circles back to identity, memory and belonging, and this piece is built around the songs and stories shared by women with personal experience of migration or seeking sanctuary.
Each participant chose a song that transports them back to the place they first called home. Those songs are performed in their original languages, with English subtitles to follow along. The Brighton version of the work was built with members of the local community in partnership with Brighton Early Music Festival and Fabrica, so it's rooted in the city itself. The legacy choir Sounds Like Home, which grew out of the project's London edition, performed at the opening.
Fabrica is a visual arts organisation housed in a former Regency church in the heart of Brighton, and they commission contemporary installations specifically for the building, so this one is built for the space it's in. The archive lives on at onesong.co.uk, where you can hear it even when you're not at the gallery.
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One Song was originally commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and is supported by Arts Council England and Counterpoints Arts. Entry is free, and it runs from 9 October to 28 October at Fabrica, 40 Duke Street, Brighton, BN1 1AG.
