During their residency at Van Abbehuis, Moe Mustafa will develop a sound-based practice that explores listening as endurance and sound as sonic resistance. At the center of this work is the act of playing Arab cassette tapes from the 1980s within European spaces. This gesture intentionally disorients and reconfigures the sonic order of the environment. The cassette functions not only as a playback device but as a temporal and affective medium that carries memory, texture, and presence. Here, cassette becomes a device for conjuring [Heimat], a German word means homeland or home. However, it describes a state of belonging and its definition is not limited to a geographical place. [Heimat] as sound. It collapses the distance between past and present, East and West, interior and exterior. From a queer perspective, the act of DJing Arabic music via cassette tapes holds fragments of desire, dance, and longing. Playing these tapes are presented not as nostalgia, but as an act of insurgent presence.

Listening as Endurance is a one day workshop engaging with local people youth and elder. The workshop explores listening as an embodied and relational practice that enables orientation, presence, and endurance under conditions of instability. Through individual and collective exercises, participants will explore listening as a situated, affective, and spatial practice shaped by environmental, social, and political conditions. The workshop prioritizes experience over analysis, inviting participants to engage with sound as a way of navigating instability rather than resolving it.