Mohamed-Ali Ltaief
born in Tunis and lives in Berlin
biography PDF — Auf Deutsch
email: ltaiefmdali(at)gmail.com
Selected performances/theater/lectures & projects
2025 • The Concretely WE: Voices From Within The Camp | performance, Mophradat consortium commissions, kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium
2024 • Wayward Voices in Interwar Modern Art: Grammatology versus Geo-Philosophies | lecture performance, TheMuseumsLab, Berlin, Germany
2024 • The Concretely WE: Voices From Within The Camp | performance, Live Works Summit, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy
2024 • Parallel Hands — Co-Existence of Times and The Good Will to Listen | performance, Tanzfabrik, Uferstudios1, Berlin, Germany
2023 • Poeisis, Praxis & Cultures of Resistance, or the non-established Histories of Art in Tunisia | lecture performance, Archive books, Berlin, Germany
2022 • What Can We Learn & Unlearn When We Speak Together? | panel / Q&A with Joan Kee and the Otolith Group, Jaou encounters, Tunis, Tunisia
2021 • The Strangeness of the Stranger | sonic performance, Radio Resonance Extra and Book Works, London, England
2021 • The Path of The Sun or the Bare Life | performance, L’art Rue, Madrasa El Achouria. Medina of Tunis, Tunisia
2019 • Manifesto of a trans-orientalist aesthetic | performance, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany
2019 • Hundert Jahre weinen oder hundert bomben werfen | play (theatre) with Darja Stocker, Theater Basel, Switzerland
2019 • Ghosts of Meaning | performance, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2) Berlin, Germany
2018 • Kairos and Chronos | guest lecture, Artistic Practice and Society, Bard College Berlin, Germany
2018 • Transresist | performative workshop, with Darja Stocker, Teatro El Granero, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 • Hello stranger | publication, with Motus, Damiani editore, Bologna, Italy
2017 • Mobility of discourses | lecture performance, Camargo Foundation, Marseille, France
2016 • Foreigner(s) in Philosophy | lecture performance, Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden, Germany
2015 • Animale-politico project | workshop & performance with Motus, Black Box Teater, Oslo, Norway
2015 • The walls of Tunis—Signs of Revolt | publication, with Luce Lacquaniti, Exorma edizioni, Rome, Italy
2015 • Animale-politico project| performance, with Motus, Pathos theater, Spielart Festival, Munich, Germany
2015 • Lajiayn | lecture performance, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015 • Caliban Cannibal | performance with Motus at NEXT Arts Festival Lille, France
2014 • CALL ME X | video-installation, with Motus Festival Santarcangelo 14, Rimini, Italy
2014 • Caliban Cannibal | performance, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle Arti, Rome, Italy
2014 • I try to different understand | performance, with Motus, Ateliersi, Bologna, Italy
2014 • Bombardamento Nomade | happening, with Motus, Angelo Mai Altrove Occupato, Rome, Italy
2013 • Pixelised Violence | installation, The Council for Liberties, at the National Library of Tunisia
2013 • Caliban Cannibal | performance, with Motus at La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
2013 • Nomadism as a form of resistance | mucchio—Misto, with Motus, Cinéma le Mondiale Tunisia
2012 • Cinema of Leak | happening, with Ahl-Al Kahf collective, Djerba, Tunisia
2011 • For the practice of the common | lecture performance, Sale Docks, Venezia, Italy
2011 • Free Jazz in Carthage | happening & collective exhibition, Jazz à Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
Awards
2023/25 Mophradat Consortium Commissions (Belgium)
2021 DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Germany)
2017 Camargo Foundation—Jerome Hill (France)
Grants
2025 Ibraaz (England)
2023/24 KLF Foundation (Tunisia)
2019 Berlin Senate, Research grants in the field of dance/performing arts (Germany)
2018 AFAC (arabculturefund) performing arts grant (Lebanon)
2016 STEO Stiftung (Switzerland)
2015 Al Mawred Al Thaqafi Foundation (Lebanon)
Fellowships/Residencies
2023/24 Live Works Fellow, Centrale Fies, Dro (Italy)
2023 Beyond Wishful Thinking, Villa Romana, Florence (Italy)
2022 Ennejma Ezzahra Museum,Tunis (Tunisia)
2020/21 L'Art Rue, Tunis. Residency suported by Goethe-Institut (Tunisia)
2017 Camargo Foundation, Cassis (France)
2014 Santarcangelo 14, Rimini (Italy)