Join us at B7L9 Art Centre on Wednesday, May 6 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM for Histories of Music Recording in North Africa — Listening Act 2 by Mohamed Ali Ltaief, featuring Mounir Hentati from the Towards Sonic Re-Socialisation project as speaker and Ali Sayari from Dar El-Oud @oudtounsi as respondent, with a guided tour taking place before the lecture performance.
As part of the I Hear the Old Sound Of the World’s Future exhibition and listening acts, Tunisian artist and author Mohamed-Ali Ltaief aims to re-entangle and negotiate the meaning of a North African sonic archive collection recorded during the first decade of the 20th Century by the Prussian Phonographic Commissions in North Africa, and now stored dispersed, in part at the Berliner phonogramm archiv (SMB) at the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin and in part at the Ennejma Ezzahra in Tunis (CMAM).
By shifting the sonic archive into a spatialized and performative practice, Ltaief opens those archives to art histories across Berlin, Beirut, Cairo and Tunis. Acknowledging the intrinsic multiplicity of art as a concept of “Poiesis and Praxis’, the lecture is composed by acts of translating lyrics, retracing movements-body language, and re-locating biographies and counter archives. This follows the lecture “Poeisis, Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance or the non-established Histories of Art in Tunisia’’ presented at Archive Books, in Berlin in 2023.
There will be a guided tour before the lecture performance.
Wednesday, May 6
From 6:30 to 8:30 PM
B7L9 Art Centre
