Monika Weiss is a New York-based Polish artist who developed her work diaspeirõ, an acoustic vocal music and digital sound/image composition, by combining part of the audio from a video from the AMAME archive with her personal experience as an Immigrant. The audio is the Ecuadorian immigrant woman voice, who speaks to her son from Hamburg: "So Abdul, from Germany, I send you a big hug, your mom loves you very much and then look here I have a photo [ ...] ¨. Although the artist does not compare the life circumstances of this Ecuadorian woman with her own, she manages to establish a connection with her narrative full of emotions and feelings, in which Weiss could recognize the longing and the tenderness with which she held the old photograph in her hands. Monika Weiss works with remnants, fragments, forgotten or omitted stories, and sites of trauma, which are impossible to convey yet must be spoken for and given a voice, even or especially beyond words. Weiss wrote the melody for a voice, a capella, without words, responding to the most archaic emotions she heard in the voice of this Ecuadorian woman. In her work, she uses the universal language of lament (emotion and affect) to bypass the artificial borders and boundaries of nation-states and their linguistic norms. By writing this classical musical composition for voice, she wanted to honor the intimate, familiar feelings she perceived in the stranger’s voice and proposes diaspeirõ to consider that this life and this singular experience of longing is worthy of a heroic eulogy. In the piece, you hear the original voice of the woman and the voice of a vocalist (Ingrid Piazza), seemingly engaged in a musical dialogue. Most archaic forms of lamentation have been the impossible dialogue with those no longer here.