Exploration of cultural heritage in parallel to contemporary artforms.
19:30 Surbending_Black box
Participation in the event is FREE, but please reserve a ticket as space is limited. You can book your ticket here:

During this residency the artists will research the intersection of their practices as North African diaspora, exploring various moods of celebration and adapting it to the contemporary frame of their individual practices; working on storytelling both in performance and in scenography.
They will celebrate their culture, and expand the possibilities of their representation, creating a visually stimulating installation which sets the scene for a powerful and intimate storytelling. They immerse themselves in an examination and a creation of collective understandings and new meanings that are valuable to the artistic work in their community.
Their shared intention is to discover new ways to communicate the essence of celebration - its fluidity, its contrasts, and its capacity to unite. They aim to learn from each other’s distinct methodologies and find innovative intersections between sound, light, poetry and movement.
Leïla, Mia and Siham collaboration stems from a shared desire to explore themes of universality and individuality through celebration.
By combining their artistic practices they aim to craft a performance that embodies the multifaceted nature of human connection and ritual.
Leïla Bélangeon Bouaziz (Fatäk) is a multidisciplinary artist, producer and artistic director who blends analogue, digital and acoustic media to create immersive sensory experiences. Known for her innovative explorations of soundscapes through DIY synthesisers, voice and noise elements, Leïla's practice bridges performance, music and visual storytelling. Her work explores the boundaries between abstraction and narrative, evoking atmospheres that are at once visceral and thought-provoking.

Zahna Siham Benamor is an artist working with performance, sound, text and installation who has recently focused on transforming poetry into tangible forms - bringing it back to the images that inspired it. As a woman of Algerian descent, her poetry is deeply connected to invocation, a spiritual act of calling forth desires. Her work reflects this heritage while engaging with European influence, colonial history and feminism. With a background in social science and language studies, she explores fragmented identities and creates art that bridges the personal and the political, inviting open interpretations of meaning and form.

Mia Ghabarou (Pamela Angela) is a Tunisian-Danish electronic composer, performer, singer and visual artist based in Copenhagen. Her work integrates audiovisual composition, site-specific installations, classical strings and performance to create immersive multimedia experiences. Ghabarou's work has been exhibited and performed at venues such as Ásmundarsalur Modern Art Gallery in Reykjavik, Simian Contemporary Art Centre and Inter Pblc. in Copenhagen, Galeria Ze de Bois (ZDB) in Lisbon and group exhibitions in London and Reykjavik.

IN PROCESS is HAUTs 1-2 week long residency format that makes space for physical brainstorms supporting the investigation and the development of new ideas for the stage.
This group of artists have been invited into residency through the open call IN PROCESS - CELEBRATION, which focuses on giving space to a visual and performative exploration of what celebration can be.
The open call was curated in collaboration with artist and scenographer Julian Juhlin.