Surfacing / Polyvocal Tactics with Bint Mbareh

Water moves around barriers, remembers old paths, and resists every attempt to be fully contained. A song passes between bodies, gathering breath, memory and feeling as it travels.

Shareeka Helaluddin takes over Surfacing, with Palestinian musician and researcher Bint Mbareh. They explore the connections, sounds, politics of voice and water. Bint’s practice traverses rain-summoning traditions, collective singing practices, vocal expansiveness. Her work asks what songs can teach us about ecological care, anti-colonial resistance, and ways of knowing that survive precisely because they refuse to be fully understood.

Image credit from My Kali magazine.