SITE Hafsia WONDERBOX: TALES OF THE OTHER HALF The portable pop-up installation displays 29 drawings #TalesOfTheOtherHalf cards and their stories in off-center public places like Hafsia. The installation building on the historical entertainment tool, the wonder box / magic box (Sandouq 3jab, Sandouq el donya, Sandouq el forja) serves as moving exhibition carrying the postcards […]
Tim Georg Heinze: INDISHĀR إندشار
INDISHĀR إندشار | Metamorphous Calligraphy & Tile Installation Site: Palais Kheireddine Set in the Palais Kheïreddine in the Medina of Tunis, INDISHĀR is a projection of Tunisian calligraphy disseminating, deforming, and reassembling in a fluid motion. A wandering light source imposes organic wave fields on the hand-written words while illuminating kaleidoscopic tessellations of characteristic tile […]
Sp|n: Testimony
Site: Bir Lahjar Sp|n is a digital art collective, founded by Skander Cherif and Oussama Menchaoui in 2022, two sound engineers and sound designers. Their work explores and experiments with new technologies through the use of various mediums (sound, video, programming, etc..). Far from calling themselves “Artists”, Sp|n is above all, the fusion between two […]
Gudrun Barenbrock: Immersive Environments / Tunis Exposure
Site: Palais Kheireddine IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS For more than 20 years Gudrun has been recording and archiving footage of human habitats around the world encompassing urban landscapes, traffic systems, and industrial structures. For Tunis, she collaged and animated two large-scale frames in the City Museum of Tunis. TUNIS EXPOSURE During the Tunis residence, Gudrun started to […]