Sejjaħ lil Malta
Sejjaħ lil Malta is a performance that happens on two shorelines.
Tania El Khoury invites the audience to take a journey on a Maltese water taxi boat from Valletta to Senglea, and to listen to sea shells that were picked up from the Tunisian coastal city of Sousse. Sejjaħ lil Malta explores our changing perception of the Mediterranean Sea, a fluctuating space of multiple borders, a leisure destination for some, and a death trap to many of those seeking refuge. The water taxis themselves tell a local story of Malta’s internal borders as a result of the privatisation of the seashore.
The performance is the sound of the relationship of Malta and Tunisia and the border in between: The Mediterranean Sea.
14, 15, 16, June 2024
Site-specific performance by Tania El Khoury, created in 2018 commissioned by Dal-Baħar Madwarha, curated by Maren Richter
Performance: Chakib Zidi and Mohamed Ali “Dali” Agrebi
Narrator and sound designer: Yasmin Kuymizakis
Singers: Mouheddine Chalchoule (Huita) and Yasmin Kuymizakis
Performed in 2024, within the project Figure It Out: The Art of Living Through System Failure
Proudly part of Refugee Week Malta 2024
Tania El Khoury creates interactive installations, in which the audience is an active collaborator. Tania’s work has been shown in five continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. She has been nominated to a number of awards and is the recipient of the Total Theatre Innovation Award and the Arches Brick
Refugee Week Malta is the local version of the largest global arts and cultural festival that celebrates the creativity, contributions and resilience of people seeking sanctuary.
This project is co-funded by the European Union, and by the NGO Co-financing Scheme of the Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector.
