fuga. Klangausstellung im Hörraum. Eine Live-Performance

A live performance that brings archival recordings to life and transforms queer stories and narratives of migration into an immersive auditory experience.

fugais a sound exhibition by artist Netta Weiser, presented in the listening room of the Humboldt Forum. As part of the Long Night of Museums, the installation will be complemented by a special live performance by flutist Roy Amotz. Archival material, electronic sounds, and live improvisation will be interwoven.

The exhibition revives an archive of sound recordings made in Egypt in the 1930s by Birgitte Schiffer. Schiffer was a Jewish-German composer and music ethnologist whose life was marked by displacement and exile. During her field research in the Siwa Oasis, an isolated community in the Sahara, Schiffer documented rare sound recordings, including a dirge sung by a children’s choir and queer love songs.

Developed specifically for the unique acoustic environment of the listening room at the Humboldt Forum,fugatransforms these archival traces into a choreography of sound and diasporic memory. In this live performance, the historical recordings enter into dialogue with contemporary musical interpretations, expanding the installation into a performative encounter.

fugainvites the audience to listen across time and geographical boundaries and to bring repressed stories of exile, desire, and complex identities into resonance within a constantly shifting soundscape.

fuga Sound Exhibition by Netta Weiser

Curator: Maurice Mengel
Performance with and by Roy Amotz

Installation in collaboration with:
Flute: Roy Amotz
Electronics: Michael Hauschke
Vocals: Chanan Ben Simon
Video: Itay Marom

Special thanks to Dr. Matthias Pasdzierny, Albrecht Wiedmann, Eleanor and Naomi Volaski Aram

Commissioned by the Media Department of the Ethnological Museum, State Museums of Berlin Funded by Artis as part of the Exhibition Grant Initiative

An early version of this work was presented at the Maamuta Center for Art and Research at Hansen House, Jerusalem, supported by the Goethe-Institut Jerusalem’s residency program.

- Ticket for the Long Night of Museums required
- 2nd Floor, Listening Space
- Part of:Long Night of Museums 2026