(يالله تنام) Yalla Tnam

Yalla Tnam (يالله تنام) is a ritual performance — a composed echo of grief, protest, and survival. Through voice, sound, and movement, artists Ahmad Mallah and Rebecca Lillich // Krüger invite the audience to witness an act of collective mourning and rebirth. The performance interweaves Fairuz’s lullaby “Yalla Tnam” with Syrian grief rituals that emerged during the early years of the Syrian Revolution— Mallah’s singing, processed live through a vocal processor, becomes a haunting rhythm of care and endurance. Lillich // Krüger responds with embodied gestures of care + violence, crafting a mythic performance that evokes both tenderness and tension.

Yalla Tnam unfolds as a ceremony — a poetic moment suspended between the personal and the political. It explores the artists intertwined heritages, migration histories, and their complex relationship to the Netherlands, a place of both refuge and displacement.

About the Artists
Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich // Krüger are an Amsterdam based performance duo intersecting the personal and political, performing open symbols to generate reflection, introspection and connection. Their debut works The Ladder (2023) and The Price of Bricks (2024) utilize singular objects through multiple mediums as action-based performance art happenings. Their new works, pulling blood from stone (2025) and work in progress Yalla Tnam (2025-), dive into surrealism and hypernormativity through song, gesture and costume as an evolution of their process. The duo has performed at Oerol Festival (Terschelling NL,) Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam NL,) Sismográf Festival (Olot, ES), Stadsschouwburg Utrecht (Utrecht NL) and Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam NL) to name a selection and have just presented their first duo exhibition and full length performance work after a residency with Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem NL.)

This work is part of the MOMO X Amarte Open Call 2026. Read more.