Corps Citoyen

Corps Citoyen الجسد المواطن is a multidisciplinary artistic collective based between Tunis and Milan, working at the intersection of sound, language, and public space. Their practice crosses borders to generate new narratives of the present - promoting decolonized voices and reclaiming who has the right to speak in the public sphere.

Barrani is their debut release, the recorded version of the acclaimed performance of the same name. In Tunisian Arabic, barrani means "the outsider" - literally, "the one from outside" (el barra). It names the foreigner, the one who left for Europe. A presence always in the wrong place, suspended - in the words of Edward Said - between origin and landing. This record is dedicated to the diaspora generation: non-native European citizens who inhabit the fracture of belonging. Through voice, triggered percussions, processed samples, and bowed cymbals, Corps Citoyen sculpt a sonic space where nostalgia and exile dissolve into one another, where the mother tongue becomes both wound and shelter.

Barrani is memory as refuge, the body as an archive of gestures. A sound that moves in non-linear time - doubling presence, splitting absence, making home in motion.