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Tarek Atoui's show is based upon an ongoing project I/E, where the artist has been documenting the sounds of city ports, including Athens, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Porto, and Beirut, since 2015. Previously separate components of this research are brought together in Kassel, where audio recordings from different harbors are combined with materials—marble blocks and steel girders—gathered from each site to form a single unit with the surrounding space. This installation is complemented by The Tables of Contents, a work around which the central themes of participation, education, and …