Conversations: Hula Hoops, Elastics, Marbles and Sand is part of the long-term ongoing Conversations project, initiated in 2013, a series of site-specific multi-channel sound installations based on interviews with children aged 7–10. Each work is developed in relation to a specific city and is created from conversations with local children from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Through children’s games as metaphors for local socio-political realities, the installations transform playful imagery into a stage for examining questions of identity, belonging, social exclusion, foreigners, war, and poverty. Structured as multi-speaker audio environments, the children’s voices enter into dialogue with one another, revealing the ideological and cultural matrices that shape everyday life within each society.

The series currently includes works developed in Vladikavkaz, Belgrade, Baku, Tehran, Vienna, Jerusalem, and Ljubljana, and continues to evolve through new city-specific installations.