The Lost Sultans is.a visceral visual installation performance, intersecting sound, film photography and dance movement. The project aims to explore memory, displacement of the body and self in relation to landscape and culture.
Through a combination of research, writing and photography Nebahat collated her mother, grandmother and great grandmother"s story as well as document her own personal journey on separation and migration. "The Lost Sultans" is a performance work of moving collage of; movement, voice, film & photography. This performance installation piece reveals the impact migration has had on four generation of women through hybridisation of photography, film, movement, sound and text.
Born in Melbourne by Kurdish parents who had migrated to Australia in 1970, Nebahat in poetic form, brings elements of storytelling, ritual and movement. In the late 1960s thousands of Kurdish families chose to migrate to Europe, Southeast Asia and United States of America for economical gain and for most have never returned back to their homeland but settled in their host countries. Through the telling of the journey of four women being affected by migration and separation, "The Lost Sultans" explores and brings light to the universal themes of separation and displacement from home, family, one's identity and one"s land.
