Les gens qui partent

2024

Les gens qui partent is a sound performance dedicated to identities linked to displacement. Developed by Albane Tamagna, a Mediterranean flautist and performer born in Corsica and based in Marseille, Les gens qui partent seeks to explore the sense of identity and belonging through sounds—the complexity of emotions linked to territories, movements and identities by mixing flutes, electronics and testimonies. Albane Tamagna chose to leave her place of birth to emancipate herself; to have the opportunity to study, work and find a more fertile ground, more conducive to certain stages of her life. Only then, she says, she felt uprooted: “When you come from a place as anchored as Corsica, as soon as you arrive elsewhere, the question of identity is immediately there. I didn’t know I carried all this complexity with me until I confronted it with otherness [...] I now know what I am: Mediterranean. I belong to a larger territory whose borders are defined by nature; where there are olive trees and tomatoes; where the wine is rougher and the skins tanned. I also know that this can change and evolve, that I am those I meet.” In collaboration with the Center on Global Justice, Albane Tamagna and her team developed a workshop with the migrant community of Santuario Frontera in Tijuana, oriented to explore how these reflections have a similar echo in each of us, by searching for sound traces of a migratory past to ultimately understand: What makes us who we are?