mowe Festival for Art and Urban Culture (2025 - 27), Keyvisual, credit: Studio Itch
mowe Opening | CittiPoint
An opening celebration for artists and the public to kick off mowe 2026 together: featuring drinks, snacks, views of the festival grounds, a live field recording set by plümmo, and an audio calligraphy performance by Sahar Homami.
08. May 2026
18:00h-21:30h
CittiPoint Operation Himmelblick
Müllerstr. 141, 13353
CittiPoint – Parkdeck 4
barrierefreier Zugang mit Aufzug auf P4
In plümmo’s work, field recordings are used to explore emotions, associations, and contextualizations related to places. Through fragmentation, repetition, and granular synthesis, it creates melodic, noisy soundscapes. In doing so, it moves away from the idea of capturing an authentic snapshot of a place and links the recorded sounds to other spaces and associations.
Sahar Homami’s Athar (Arabic), Asar (Persian), Eser (Turkish): trace, remnant, imprint. Same root, three tongues, one inheritance. The word holds both the physical mark on a surface and the act of transmission through time. In Persian, it also means: work of art, literary work, opus. Remnant and creation are the same noun. A body moves. Ink meets surface. The letter — written, repeated, worn into abstraction — has always been both a target and a tool. Sahar Homami works in Nastaliq (the classical Persian script of poetry and court), and siah mashgh, layered with gestural abstraction and meditative ambient electronic sounds. Repetition as resistance. The letter as archive. The trace persists after the body leaves.
About the Artists
plümmo is an experimental sound project by Nihad El-Kayed. In her sound works, she is interested in the connections and gaps between space, sound, and perception. She has produced works for exhibitions, plays, and sound walks, and has performed concerts at venues including ausland (Berlin), Madame Claude (Berlin), and salon des amateurs (Düsseldorf).
Sahar Homami (they/she) is an Iranian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and researcher working between Berlin, Cairo, and Montreal. Their practice weaves Persian calligraphy, audiovisual performance, computation arts, and mystical philosophy into works that treat perception as resistance and remembrance.
Rooted in Sufi and decolonial thought, their projects move across installation, live performance, augmented reality, and calligraphy, exploring altered states of consciousness through image, sound, and script. Since 2015, their work has been presented at MUTEK Montréal/Mexico, HELLERAU, Stereolux, Rotondes, Bright Festival, Tehran Contemporary Sounds, Berlin Music Video Awards, and Abuja Art Week, among others.
About the Location
Operation Himmelblick has been operating since 2023 on the 2,000-square-meter parking deck of the CittiPoint shopping center in Berlin-Wedding. In 2024, the artistic-political collective erected a multifunctional pavilion in the middle of the space, equipped with a small kitchen, a counter, and storage, serving as a contact point, research headquarters, and workshop space to provide the basic necessities for rooftop events. The approximately 20 m² rooftop garage is connected to electricity and water, and the surrounding unused parking area can be used for events. Movable modules, which dock with the pavilion built on a platform when closed, can be distributed across the rooftop area.
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