Dr Rim Irscheid is a researcher in the field of contemporary sound production and curation across Lebanon and the Palestinian diaspora in Europe. She is currently looking at how memory, autobiographical, and sensory aspects of urban living are reflected in sound and multimedia installations.

 

Drawing on ethnographic observations from Beirut, Cairo, and Berlin, she looks at the way musicians experience, remember, and care, for their city and fellow citizens in a place that evokes intense feelings of both belonging and alienation. The focus lies on cultural policy decisions and political dimensions of public life that inform the productive capacities of musicians and citizens and their sonic outputs.