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Photo Series: Shizophonia

Photo Series: Shizophonia

By Dylan Culhane on October 20, 2018

By Dylan Culhane on 20 October 2018 in  BLOG

In this photo series South African photographer Dylan Culhane stages artist Umlilo in collage portraits and evokes a sense of multiplicity. A photo series from the Norient book and exposition «Seismographic Sounds».

Posted in BLOG | Tagged Desire, Hybridity, Queer Culture, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Photo Series, South Africa, Umlilo | 3 Responses

Distorted Processes of Becoming

Distorted Processes of Becoming

By Henriette Gunkel on October 18, 2018

By Henriette Gunkel on 18 October 2018 in  VIDEO

What reads at first sight as a rather classic «coming out» story is not a linear narrative. In the music video «Magic Man» South African artist Umlilo and director Jasyn Howes produce a temporal and spatial disorder through fragments of moving images.

Posted in VIDEO | Tagged body, dance, Desire, Queer Culture, Seismographic Sounds, South Africa, Umlilo | 2 Responses

Surviving in South African’s Queer Scene

Surviving in South African’s Queer Scene

By Umlilo on October 15, 2018

By Umlilo and Leila Dee Dougan on 15 October 2018 in  AUDIO

For rapper Umlilo music is freedom and therapy at the same time. In his music he addresses issues of homophobia and bends the common images of gender. «Gender has always been something very natural to me to fuck with», he explains his approach.

Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Class, Desire, DIY, Queer Culture, Seismographic Sounds, Seismographic Sounds Podcasts, South Africa, Umlilo | 2 Responses

Queer Fightback: Reggaetón Underground

Queer Fightback: Reggaetón Underground

By Beatriz Hernández Caraveo on August 22, 2018

By Beatriz Hernández Caraveo on 22 August 2018 in  BLOG

Music scenes can serve as safe spaces for marginalized groups. In Mexico, reggaetón underground parties are an important home for the country’s LGBTIQA+ community to express their discontent against a sexist society and lack of female empowerment.

Posted in BLOG | Tagged dance, Queer Culture | Leave a response

Queering Hip Hop Beat by Beat

Queering Hip Hop Beat by Beat

By Theresa Beyer (Norient) on December 8, 2017

By Theresa Beyer (Norient) on 8 December 2017 in  STORIES

Hip hop is always changing, and recently LGTB and Queer Hip-Hop – for long time out of sight – has seized the stage. Not as a subgenre, but a part of hip hop culture that has a long history. It’s a history about activism, too, in the USA and worldwide.

Posted in STORIES | Tagged Desire, Queer Culture, Queer Rap, Seismographic Sounds | Leave a response

The Queer Star of Swedish Hip Hop

The Queer Star of Swedish Hip Hop

By Kalle Berggren on August 18, 2017

By Kalle Berggren on 18 August 2017 in  VIDEO

Silvana Imam is changing Sweden’s contemporary hip hop landscape. In this jj remix of her song «I.M.A.M.», classical hip hop video references are characteristically interchanged with images of political protests and LGBT Pride marches.

Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Ayesha, Cleo, Desire, Elin Kastlander, feminism, Femtastic, Feven, Gender Roles, Gudrun Schyman, Heli, Hip Hop, I.M.A.M., jj, Kalle Berggren, Leila K, Lilla Namo, Linda Pira, Lithuania, Melinda Wrede, Mika Gustafson, Neneh Cherry, New Geographies, Olivia Kastebring, Pussy Riot, Queer, Queer Culture, Seismographic Sounds, Silvana Imam, Simone de Beauvoir, Sweden, Syria, Transnationality, Valerie Solanas | 3 Responses

Overwrite Your Mind and Body

Overwrite Your Mind and Body

By Philipp Rhensius (Norient) on March 27, 2017

By Philipp Rhensius (Norient) on 27 March 2017 in  BLOG

The human body is a drilled animal. The meta-national art and music collective NON Worldwide opposes this. Their performance «The Great Disappointment» at CTM Festival aimed at decolononizing the dancefloor by creating sensual disorientation.

Posted in BLOG | Tagged Belonging, dance, New Geographies, Queer Culture | Leave a response

Queer and Of Here

Queer and Of Here

By B Camminga on January 11, 2017

By B Camminga on 11 January 2017 in  STORIES

In Post Apartheid South Africa a new generation of young artists are drawing on the country’s idiosyncratic past and its unsettled present. They express queer visions for the future. See Dope St Jude at the 8th Norient Musikfilm Festival 2017.

Posted in STORIES | Tagged 8. Norient Musikfilm Festival, Aluta, Apartheid, B Camminga, Bill of Rights, body or presentation, Cairo, Chain Gang, communities, Congo, culture, Desire, Dope St Jude, Drag, Eve Sedgwick, Gay, Gayle, Gender, Hlasko, Keep in Touch, Lesbian, LGBTI, masculinity, post-apartheid, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Queer, Queer Culture, queer music, Race, Reciprocity, religion, Seismographic Sounds, sexuality, South Africa, Umlilo | 5 Responses

Of Rainbows and Monsters

Of Rainbows and Monsters

By B Camminga on October 24, 2016

By B Camminga on 24 October 2016 in  VIDEO

The video of «Magic Man» of the south african musician Umlilo questions issues of race and masculinity and speaks to the constant negotiation that is the suffocating entanglement of past and present South Africa.

Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Desire, Gender, Magic Man, masculinity, Queer, Queer Culture, Race, Rainbow Nation, Ritual, Seismographic Sounds, South Africa, Umlilo, Xhosa | 3 Responses

Five Video Clips from Mexico

Five Video Clips from Mexico

By Moses Iten on April 17, 2015

By Moses Iten on 17 April 2015 in  VIDEO

Clips, compiled bey Australian author Moses Iten, between field recordings, Reggaeton and Cumbia. Beginning with one of our long time favorites, a sci-fi shaving odyssey starting from the heights of Machu Picchu.

Posted in VIDEO | Tagged five video clips from, place, Queer Culture, Tradition | 1 Response

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