Resounding Voice: Date Songs

Exhibition closing at Resounding Voice, the event will include a performance by vocal artist Chanan Ben Simon (New York). The performance concludes the collaborative process between Weiser and Ben Simon, in which they explored archival recordings of queer love songs recorded in Egypt in the 1930s, taken from the archive of Brigitta Schiffer. The songs were documented and preserved as work songs performed during date-harvesting; their lyrics express themes such as migration, love, longing, and economic struggle.
The performance will include a contemporary rendition of the vocal gestures found in the archive, and a shared resonance of the “resounding voice” — the call of the beloved that is absent from the archive.

As part of the exhibition Resounding Voice by Netta Weiser at Mamuta, a collaboration between The Mamuta Art and Research Center and the Goethe-Institut Israel.