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TAKEOVER

Bint Mbareh

September 2026

free

For the month of September, Mosaic Rooms welcomes Bint Mbareh for a residency and takeover as part of sounding towards - -.

Alongside making new music in the space, her residency will unfold as a series of events, a non-musicians' choir, secret jams, workshops, silent reading hours, and sharing and listening sessions. Bint Mbareh will use this time to research ways of bringing participants together to learn outside failed and deteriorated institutions. In a world where surveillance feels ubiquitous and inescapable, these gatherings are imagined as an invitation to hide, using togetherness itself as a tool for unintelligibility.

Bint Mbareh's favourite thing to do is see where the learning happens when we're not trying to learn in a systematic way. This often involves discomfort, the body feeling vulnerable and reconfiguring itself in a space where it's nudged towards being less passive as a listener. This could involve complete silence, and it could involve speaking and it could involve a secret third thing which she will explore with audiences over the course of a week of public programming.

Programme details coming soon.









Image: Design by Rand Hamdallah.

ARTIST

Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.

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