Time to Meet – Live Works Fellows
Showings
by
Liina Magnea, Mohamed-Ali Ltaief
Liina Magnea
«hand in hand towards the collapse» (wt)
The doomsday scenario that Liina Magnea bases her artistic research on seems surreal: Thunder and lighting clash on a burning ground where a soldier is searching for water. About to dry out, the soldier realizes the last resort must be praying for forgiveness. Bursting into dancing and singing the soldier screams: “lock me up, handcuff me! I am the global warming villain!”. But nothing happens. The only answer is the echo of these pleads. The next day the spy radio plays a light tune reminding their listeners that dreadful plots always come with surprising turns.
A fantasy in the extreme, a dance and song play that moves between tragedy and comedy, lightness and heaviness, close to the man-made catastrophes of our time.
Accessibility/Content Note
A fantasy in the extreme, a dance and song play that moves between tragedy and comedy, lightness and heaviness, close to the man-made catastrophes of our time.
Accessibility/Content Note
The performance lasts 45 minutes and takes place in Studio 1. It will be held in English, German and Italian.
Sometimes loud and sudden sound elements are used.
Sometimes loud and sudden sound elements are used.
Mohamed-Ali Ltaief
«PARALLEL HANDS - Co-existence of Times and the Good Will to Listen»
Ltaief’s research performance project «PARALLEL HANDS - Co-existence of Times and the Good Will to Listen» investigates the legacy of North African sonic archives in the collection of Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv and Ethnologisches Musuem in Berlin. It specifically re-traces the early phonogram sound archives that were commissioned and classified during the 1910s, and are today settled in ethno-musicological collections stored in Berlin at SMB museums. These archives include recordings made by the German Phonographic Commission (Königlich Preußische Phonographische Kommission) established by Wilhelm Doegen and assisted by Robert Lachmann with prisoners of the First World War, between 1915 and 1918 at the Half Moon camp in Wünsdorf (south Berlin). Some of these prisoners were Tunisian, like Sadok Ben Rashid.
This project critically investigates notions of record and archive, raising questions about ethno-musical field recording practices under the violence of European Colonialism; about the limits of translation and the enduring myth of universal art doctrines: How can sonic knowledge resist and counter-narrate?
This project critically investigates notions of record and archive, raising questions about ethno-musical field recording practices under the violence of European Colonialism; about the limits of translation and the enduring myth of universal art doctrines: How can sonic knowledge resist and counter-narrate?
Accessibility / Content Note
The performance lasts 40 minutes and takes place in Studio 1. It will be held in English, German and Arabic.
Sometimes loud and sudden sound elements are used.
The double showing is followed by a discussion with the artists.
Accessibility for both parts of the event
Pre-boarding (early seating) and a limited number of beanbags are available for people with mobility impairments. Both can be reserved at ticket@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
Studio 1 has a 1.5 m lowered area, accessible only by 7 steps. Thus, the studio is not barrier-free on the lower area. Access to the upper part of the studio is possible without steps. The studio has two wheelchair places. The barrier-free toilet is located in the foyer of studios 3, 4 and 5, approx. 20m across the courtyard.
If you have any further questions about the access requirements for this performance, please contact: presse@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
Pre-boarding (early seating) and a limited number of beanbags are available for people with mobility impairments. Both can be reserved at ticket@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
Studio 1 has a 1.5 m lowered area, accessible only by 7 steps. Thus, the studio is not barrier-free on the lower area. Access to the upper part of the studio is possible without steps. The studio has two wheelchair places. The barrier-free toilet is located in the foyer of studios 3, 4 and 5, approx. 20m across the courtyard.
If you have any further questions about the access requirements for this performance, please contact: presse@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
Further information on accessibility can be found on our website at:
Liina Magnea
Obsessed with the idea of the immaterial Gesamtkunstwerk, Liina Magnea (b. 1991 Berlin /DE) combines music, movement, film dramaturgy and internet scrolling into a shape-shifting, dynamic performance.
She studied art and choreography and has had her work shown at Volksbühne, Zodiak Helsinki, KW Center for Contemporary Art and Sophiensaele, among others. She also works as a performer and musician for other artists, gives vocal coachings and supports people suffering from addiction.
Mohamed-Ali Ltaief
Mohamed-Ali Ltaief (he/his) is an artist and author. His practice draws from cross-disciplinary and post-colonial perspectives at the intersection of theatre, performance, sound, and visual art, alongside essays and fiction. Ltaief studied philosophy in Tunis and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts Tunis, and MA Spatial Strategies at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin.
In 2011, he co-founded in Tunis the independent art group Ahl Al-Kahf (SevenSleepers). From 2013, Ltaief continuously collaborated with Motus Theater Company. In 2019, he presented the performative manifesto «Ghosts of Meaning» at The Present Is Not Enough festival at HAU2 Berlin and the play «Hundert Jahre» in Theater Basel. He recently presented «Poeisis, Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance or the non-established Histories of Art in Tunisia», lecture performance, Unpacking our Library #6 part of Publishing Practices 3, Weaving the Inner Bark Festival with Archivebooks Berlin at Savvy Contemporary (2023).
In 2011, he co-founded in Tunis the independent art group Ahl Al-Kahf (SevenSleepers). From 2013, Ltaief continuously collaborated with Motus Theater Company. In 2019, he presented the performative manifesto «Ghosts of Meaning» at The Present Is Not Enough festival at HAU2 Berlin and the play «Hundert Jahre» in Theater Basel. He recently presented «Poeisis, Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance or the non-established Histories of Art in Tunisia», lecture performance, Unpacking our Library #6 part of Publishing Practices 3, Weaving the Inner Bark Festival with Archivebooks Berlin at Savvy Contemporary (2023).
Duration: approx. 100 Minuten inclusive talk
Free / No registration necessary
The Time to Meet events are popular and operate on a first-come, first-served basis. It is therefore worth arriving early.
Free / No registration necessary
The Time to Meet events are popular and operate on a first-come, first-served basis. It is therefore worth arriving early.
«Hand in Hand Towards the Collapse»
Concept & Performance: Liina Magnea
«Hand in Hand Towards the Collapse» is funded by Centrale Fies, Dro (It) and supported byTanzfabrik Berlin.
«PARALLEL HANDS - Co-existence of Times and the Good Will to Listen»
«PARALLEL HANDS - Co-existence of Times and the Good Will to Listen»
Concept & Performance: Mohamed-Ali Ltaief
«PARALLEL HANDS - Co-existence of Times and the Good Will to Listen» is part of «The Striated Time» performance trilogy project. With the kind support of Mophradat Consortium Commissions 2023/2025, Centrale Fies, Dro (It) and Kaaitheater Brüssel (Be) und Tanzfabrik Berlin (DE).
In the frame of LIVE WORK FELLOWS 2023-2024.
Initiated in 2013, Live Works is a platform dedicated to live contemporary practices that contribute to deepening and broadening the idea of performance, following the current evolution of performance and its styles. Live Works offers annual fellowships to 6 artists selected via Open Call every year and includes different creative residency periods at Centrale Fies and in partner institutions at an international level. Live Works sees performance as a work space, and as an instrument and cultural exercise. Starting from the notion of performance in the visual art practice, the project is unique in its particular attention to hybrid research, underlining the openness and fluidity of performance, its social and political implications and its level of public understandability.
«PARALLEL HANDS - Co-existence of Times and the Good Will to Listen» is part of «The Striated Time» performance trilogy project. With the kind support of Mophradat Consortium Commissions 2023/2025, Centrale Fies, Dro (It) and Kaaitheater Brüssel (Be) und Tanzfabrik Berlin (DE).
In the frame of LIVE WORK FELLOWS 2023-2024.
Initiated in 2013, Live Works is a platform dedicated to live contemporary practices that contribute to deepening and broadening the idea of performance, following the current evolution of performance and its styles. Live Works offers annual fellowships to 6 artists selected via Open Call every year and includes different creative residency periods at Centrale Fies and in partner institutions at an international level. Live Works sees performance as a work space, and as an instrument and cultural exercise. Starting from the notion of performance in the visual art practice, the project is unique in its particular attention to hybrid research, underlining the openness and fluidity of performance, its social and political implications and its level of public understandability.
The works are funded by Centrale Fies, Dro (It).