24/02/2026
NEXT TUESDAY | Sound performance and Listening act
Mohamed Ali Ltaeif & Sarah Entwistle | sonic evalauation
Tue, 3 Mar 2026 | 7 pm
Gallery II
As part of the exhibition Weep Holes, artist, author, and researcher Mohamed Ali Ltaief and Sarah Entwistle are presenting a sound constellation in the lower exhibition rooms of the E-WERK.
This newly conceived sonic performance and listening act, titled sonic evacuation, will unfold across the subterranean architecture. Marking the first collaboration between Ltaief and Entwistle, the work is a song of friendship and cohabitation, rooted in an ongoing exchange and shared research into visual and sonic archives.
The performance forms part of a long-term project exploring African, Arab, and Asian sound recordings, artefacts, and instruments held within Western museum collections. It weaves in materials from the Phonogramm-Archiv and Lautarchiv in Berlin, the Ethnologisches Museum, and other counter-sound archives. It resonates through the underground as an act of listening, retrieval, and re-sounding.
Ltaief’s work moves through temporality, spatiality, geo-philosophy, and migration, with a sustained attention to non-canonical art histories that have remained at the margins of dominant modernist narratives. His transdisciplinary practice brings together performance, theatre, visual art, sound, essay, and fiction. He studied philosophy, graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis, and is currently a researcher in Spatial Strategies at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin.
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