Mosaic Interactive originated as a cultural exchange project involving research, collaborations and workshops in Turkey, Palestine and central Appalachia over the course of a year. The works were presented in three suites -- Memories, Dreams and Rituals. Each suite engages song and storytelling to explore the spaces between past and present, waking and sleeping, human and spiritual. This first iteration of Mosaic Interactive as a performance piece was developed during a month-long residency and tour in East Kentucky, West Virginia and East Tennessee, where our entire team of artists from Morocco, Turkey, Indonesia, Palestine and the U.S. participated in community-led public events and dances, musical jams, and potlucks. Mosaic artists also led discussions, educational workshops and community dinners, including "Remedy and Recipe" exchanges with attendees, sharing wisdom on everything from how to bake an apple pie and brew healing tea to how to find and keep friendship. 

Following this tour of central Appalachia, the Mosaic Interactive team premiered a triptych of three works -- Memories, Dreams & Rituals -- at the 2019 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. The pieces were presented several times over the course of the festival in a dedicated venue to enthusiastic audiences, and received very positive feedback. 

In 2024, the Dreams and Memories pieces were reimagined and workshopped over the course of several months, and were presented in an expanded production as part of Brooklyn's annual MATA Festival, which was guest curated by Found Sound Nation. FSN continues to develop two works: Dreams, an exploration of how the unbound imaginative world of children washes up against and over the physical wall that surrounds their society, using original music and visuals inspired by the nighttime dreams and daydreams of a group of children living along the West Bank wall in Palestine; and Memories, which weaves together the stories, poetry, imagery and singing traditions of Kurdish women from Turkey and women in central Appalachia in a meditation on love, longing and womanhood. For more information about Mosaic, visit the Mosaic website.