Relay is a series of site-responsive and iterative sonic performances conceived by Hannan Jones and Samir Kennedy. Employing movement, sound, sampling and improvisation to construct a sonic environmental container which interrogates the complexities of the artists’ shared Algerian-British identities; testing live ways in which to articulate and embody multiplicity and intersecting psychological states. 

               The work interrogates the infinite flux and construction of fragmented identities and the dissolution of self through sampling collected personal sonic archives, in an attempt to bridge cultural chasms and to speak to a lingering sense that our bodies carry histories that are intangible in theory but become tangible through our very existence.  Situating sound and movement as vectors for lived understanding whilst shaping a persistence of anticipation of a future already felt.             

Presented at The Common Guild, Glasgow (2025);  Somerset House, London (2026); Parallèle Festival at GMEM —National Center for Musical Creation of Marseille (2026).

Supported by The Common Guild, Wysing Arts Centre and Triangle-Astérides.