Je bois le désordre du monde
Following a first event convened by Camille Lévy Sarfati at KADIST Paris in April, this second chapter of the Double Takes program will take place between September 20 – 24th at El Warcha studio, in Tunis. “ I Drink the World’s Tumult ”* is an invitation to explore the power of collective making against pessimism. The screening program – composed of video works from the KADIST Collection, local artists, and the Lumbung collection – is intertwined with talks, music, and workshops. All together, the event aims to open up spaces for discussion and exchange around the current state of confusion and disarray, in Tunisia and abroad. Part of the program will be exclusively dedicated to the local young audience, in partnership with the association Sentiers and El Warcha, while the rest of the event will be accessible to all. Wednesday, September 20th ( private event ) El Warcha scenography workshop addressed to the neighborhood youth Friday, September 22nd ( private event ) Young Public: Cinéclub Sentiers x El Warcha 6:30–7:05pm | Screenings Amine Koudhai, And I said God get me out from here , 2020 Zhou Tao, One Two Three Four , 2008 Fikret Atay, Rebels of the Dance , 2022 Elisa Strinna, The Upwelling , 2019 7:10–8:00pm | Talk with the association Sentiers and El Warcha Saturday, September 23rd (open to public) 6:30–7:30pm | Screenings Amine Koudhai, And I said God get me out from here , 2020 Laure Prouvost, Stong Sory Vegetables , 2010 Zhou Tao, One Two Three Four , 2008 Fikret Atay, Rebels of the Dance , 2022 Agus Nur Amal, Lumbung Story: Jatiwangi Art Factory , 2021 7:30–8:30pm | Talk “Art and ‘peptimism’: creating in a time of tumult” with El Warcha, Amine Koudhai, Fikret Atay 8:00–8:30pm | Presentation by BOUMA Collective 8:30–9:10pm | Sound performance by Emily Sarsam Sunday, September 24th (open to public) 12:00–1:10pm | Screening Koki Tanaka, A Poem Written by 5 poets at once (first attempt) , 2013 1:15–2:30pm | Couscous & Debate Koki Tanaka x El Warcha: “Collectivity and conviviality as an artistic and political project”. *The title of the program is extracted from a poem written by Emné Nassereddine in La Danse du Figuier (2021) Camille Lévy Sarfati Camille Lévy Sarfati is a Tunis-based curator and filmmaker. She is the former artistic director of 32bis in Tunis. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, she has focused on issues of ethnonationalism and minority, which led her to make a documentary exploring the conflicting memories surrounding Tunisia’s Jewish history. She is also the author of various texts and articles, published amongst others in the Revue des Mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée. Her curatorial practice centers Tunisian and North-African artists, in relation to whom she has convened different educational and facilitation programs. In 2022, she curated the exhibitions Can We Sing Together Again, Old Friend? by South-African artist Thania Petersen, and Injurier le Soleil at 32bis in Tunis. El Warcha El Warcha (meaning ‘workshop’ in Arabic) is a collective and maker-space founded in 2016 in the medina of Tunis, Tunisia, and now based in the Kram neighborhood. It aims to promote hands-on education and civic actions through the making of temporary urban furniture, art installations, and public events with local inhabitants. With members of its community moving around, the project established itself in Tottenham, north London in 2018 and in Lisbon in 2020. In 2022 El Warcha was invited to take part in Documenta15 and since then has been taking part in other international art exhibitions. Sentiers Sentiers-Massarib is a Tunisian cultural association founded in 2017. Its aim is to disseminate cinematographic culture by showing films and organising workshops where people comment on and make images, in places that are marginalised in terms of access to art and culture. What underpins all of Sentiers’ actions is a vision that places art and representation at the heart of democratic and political issues, not by making art the simple instrument of social and civic engagement, but rather by considering creation as a political act in which aesthetics is the singular expression of common life. That’s why the activities are essentially designed to be participatory, involving the public, and more specifically young people, in a process of understanding themselves and the world, and in a creative process. BOUMA Collective “With an eye opened onto a world that watches over us, we gather traces of the distant unknown and the vestiges of an unheard-of universe.” Between Tunisia and France, Bouma is a collective dedicated to the image since 2022, founded by Saif Fradj, Auréa Jabeur and Cyrine Ghrir. Since its creation the collective participated in several exhibitions and festivals in Tunisia, France and Egypt such as Visual Utopies with Elbirou art gallery in Sousse, Cairo Photo Week… “Personal Diaries” is the first publication in papers by the collective, it combines photography with words and music.