Opening with Performances

The evening will be framed by speeches from the artist herself and the curator Frances Breden, as well as by the performance “Peace on Earth Is Not for Us” by the artist together with Maryam Fazeli.

The performance consists of a combination of texts and sounds: Jamila Barakat will read her poem “In the Cracks of Silence” (2025), accompanied by Maryam Fazeli with clarinet and additional sound design. 

Jamila Barakat: More info here.

Maryam Fazeli is a sound artist, researcher, and community organiser based in Berlin. As the co-founder of the collective sound archive project Khamoosh she researches sounds and songs from West and Central Asia: in her current research project, she preserves local knowledge of land and agriculturethrough folk songs. In concerts, performances, and radio shows she processes and mediates these sounds together with electro-acoustic compositions. As an organiser and art mediator she facilitates empowerment workshops for children and teenagers, as well as educational reading events together with the counter-pedagogy collective un/learning group.

This event is free of charge.

More info coming soon!