akademie der autodidakten presents: OPEN CALL: ACCIDENTS & INCIDENTS MUSIC AND FILM PROJECT WITH GHAZI BARAKAT AND MOHAMEDALI LTAIEF For an experimental music and art project with the musician and composer Ghazi Barakat and the artist and performer Mohamed Ali Ltaief, we are looking for young Arab, PoC and post- migrant musicians, filmmakers, and art enthusiasts between the ages of 16 and 27 who are interested in and available for participating in ACCIDENTS & INCIDENTS between April and 3 rd of June. We are looking for people passionate about music, film, and art that would like play Arab and North African instruments including oud, tar, tabla and others, or produce artistic videos. They can be self-taught, beginners or advanced in their skills, everyone is welcome. Traditional as well as modern instruments can be brought along and played. Turntablists and DJs may also participate. People interested in video can use their own equipment. ACCIDENTS & INCIDENTS is aimed at bringing together a group of diverse youth to compose an electronic & acoustic musical and visual artistic synthesis capturing the multiple facets of life in Berlin and lifelines beyond the city from the young participants’ perspectives. The compositions of sound and visuals developed for ACCIDENTS & INCIDENTS will be brought onto the stage at Ballhaus Naunynstraße as an orchestral happening. The project is geared towards young individuals from diverse Arab and North African communities as well as new arrivals in Berlin with a background in music, but also creative youth who do not have a classical education in music. Ghazi Barakat is a GermanPalestinian sound artist and musician working in Berlin since 1986. He has been practicing as a musician in Germany, the US and France for many years and has worked as a curator, journalist, and editor in various countries. His experimental work is influenced by jazz, old rituals, sciencefiction and neobrutalist architecture. He is also known under the artistic pseudonym Pharoah Chromium among others. At Ballhaus Nauynstraße Ghazi Barakat composed and produced the soundtrack for the project OUT IN THE OPEN of akademie der autodidakten in January 2016. Mohamedali Ltaief (Dali) is a visual artist and performer. He studied fine art and philosophy in Tunis. Ltaiefs work was presented and performed among others in "Maxxi, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts (Rome), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Santarcangelo dei teatri (Rimini), Black box Theater (Oslo), Biennale Spielart (Munich). In addition to other projects, Ltaief directed workshops for children, young people and refugees in Kasserine, Tunis; Abt (Festival des cinémas d'Afrique), Berlin.