Join us at B7L9 Art Centre on Wednesday, May 20 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM for the last lecture performance “Surrealist Writing in North Africa and in the Diaspora” — Listening Act 4 by Mohamed Ali Ltaief, featuring Haikel Hazgui & Anas Ghrab.
‘Surrealist and Experimental Writing in North Africa and in the Diaspora’ is the final series of lectures and listening acts conceived by
Mohamed Ali Ltaief as part of the exhibition I Hear the Old Sound of the World’s Future and its public programme.
In Tunis, we engage with writers and thinkers who practice and theorise forms of poetic resistance against various forms of epistemic oppression and their consequences. Departing from the ‘Taht Essour Collective’ (meaning ‘under the ramparts’) in 1930s Tunis, as well as from Egyptian surrealism and the works of writers and musicians such as Ted Jones, Georges Henein, Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Joyce Mansour, Don Lee and W.E.B. Du Bois, among others. We delve into the realm of existential writing, examining it from within and beyond the boundaries of entrapment, reduction and conceptual and sensory intrusion. We cover our ears to hear better, discerning meaning within the confines and openings of our praxis and poetics of being in the world.
Wednesday 20 May
6:30 - 8:30 PM
B7l9 Art Centre
