Grids, Ghosts and Glitches
The Loudspeaker and Tower at ARD
Letters from Distant Orbits
A light, a loudspeaker, a parrot
Loudspeaker and Tower at TSV
Loudspeaker and Tower Zine
Loudspeaker at KAG
Mud, Minarets and Meaningless Events
Stairway to Heaven
Storm Over Cairo
Grids, Ghosts and Glitches ARD, Cairo, 2025
A bridge, a park, a mosque: infrastructure is never only steel and concrete. It settles into memory, carried by the people who pass through it, and returns to them later in objects, sounds, and stories long after they've left the place behind. As part of the public program for The Loudspeaker and the Tower at ARD, I co-led a two-day workshop inviting participants to begin from a personal memory or object tied to a piece of Cairo's infrastructure, a park, bridge, highway, underpass, or mosque, building short texts through collage poetry, guided writing, and field recording. The first day was spent at Merryland Park in Heliopolis, a historic public park with shifting paths, fences, rides, and planted islands. Walking the park, participants recorded its everyday textures, footsteps on gravel, gates, vendors, rides, birdsong, and layered these under voices reciting fragments of their own collage texts, gathering it all into a collective sound piece played from the loudspeaker in the exhibition during the finissage.