The Consortium Commissions
We are happy to announce that Mohamed-Ali Ltaief’s performance, The concretely WE: Voices from within the camp, will take place at Kaaitheater (Brussels) this month, as part of the third edition of Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions 2023/2025.
Mohamed-Ali Ltaief with Lamin Fofana & Tarxun
The concretely WE: Voices from within the camp
January 23 & 24, 2025, 8:30pm
Kaaitheater
The concretely WE: Voices from within the camp is a performance that tries to re-entangle and negotiate the meaning of North African sonic archives in the collection of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. Drawing on Franz Fanon’s work on the impact of colonial oppression, Mohamed-Ali intertwines archival material and the poetry of Tunisian poet, singer, and WWI prisoner Sadok Ben Rachid into one performance, in an attempt to counter colonial archival classifications. A first iteration of this performance took place at Centrale Fies in Trento in July 2024. You can read more about Mohamed-Ali’s work and the performance at Kaaitheater here.
Mohamed-Ali Ltaief (b. 1984) is a Tunis-born, Berlin-based performance artist, author, and scholar. His practice draws from cross-disciplinary and post-colonial perspectives at the intersection of theatre performance, sound, and conceptual and visual art, alongside essays and fiction. In 2011, he co-founded the independent art group “Ahl Al-Kahf” in Tunisia, which later launched Radio Ahl Al-Kahf. He is a scholar in the Department of Spatial Strategies at the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin.