"The path of the sun or the bare life" residency by Mohamedali Ltaief
When and where?
Monday, 01 march - 10:00 AM
L'Art Rue
Performance with Omar Karray, Rindala Pereverzev and Slim Baccar.
Big Thanks to:
Adenen El Ghali (Architecte, urbaniste et historien).
Sofian Dhif (Architecte and historian).
Ennejma Ezzahra. CMAM – Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music.
Karim Ben Yedder (Director of National Archives of Tunisia).
Habib Kazdaghli (Historian).
Association for the maintenance of the island of Djerba.
L'Art Rue
Research grants in the field of performing arts / dance 2019 – Senate Berlin.
Supported by The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC.
Artistic residency supported by L'Art Rue and Goethe Institut Tunis
As part of his artistic residency with L'Art Rue from march to june 2021, Mohamedali Ltaief and his team travelled between the forest of Ain Draham, the mountains of Matmata and the island of Djerba.
An aesthetic and sonic research for heterotopic spaces.
The team works on globalized urban spaces ; the relationship between the chinese market and merchandised identities and its impact on the public space. In the framework of a constant search for spatial strategies, passing through Sonnenalle in Berlin, Saint-Denis near Paris, Attiki in Athens and Sidi Bou Mendil in Tunis, where chinese and turkish merchandise spread in arab migrants neighborhoods and marketplaces of the poor. The need to survive mixes with the economy of permanent war..
Between urban spaces of the fake chinese market and heterotopic spaces, the team explores the moving soundscapes in those different environments and transforms them through an interdisciplinary conceptual journey : sound, performance and visual art…