# Tarek Atoui: "DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments"

- Institution: University of California, Berkeley
- Department: Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium
- Speaker: Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium UC Berkeley
- Year: 2015
- Level: Undergraduate
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TarekAtoui)
- Licence: none stated by the source
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Tarek Atoui, “DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments”

Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium March 9, 2015, 7:30-9:00pm The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Co-presented with the MATRIX program at the Berkeley Art Museum.

About the talk: Atoui will present several of his ongoing projects each of which propose original methods for making instruments and the possibilities they open in terms of collaboration, performance and composition. In the Dahlem Sessions and the Reverse Sessions, Atoui inverted the order in which instruments are usually created, using the sounds of a collection of ethnic musical instruments located in the Dahlem Museum of Ethnology in Berlin as a starting point for imagining and building new instruments. This project was first presented in the 2014 Berlin Biennial and expanded in a solo exhibition presented at kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico City. For his MATRIX project at BAM/PFA, Atoui will build on WITHIN, a project that he initiated in Sharjah (UAE) in 2013, which is based on a series of conversations and collaborations with students from a school for the deaf.

## Lectures

1. [TAREK ATOUI](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ia/TarekAtoui/b83dd456500a), 1 h 25 min (Video)