We kindly invite you to an open-air summer evening with lectures, readings, and a music performance to launch our newest Norient Book Politics of Curatorship on June 29 in the cosy backyard of Motto Books Berlin.

In essays, academic texts, photo essays, poems, and short comments by 32 writers, artists, journalists, and scholars from all over the world, Politics of Curatorship encourages different approaches to increase diversity and equality in curatorship within the cultural industry. It also aims to open up the term radically towards more affective, queer, decolonizing, collective, personal, and process-based ways of curating.

For the Berlin release party, we have invited the Berlin-based curator and book contributor Andrea Goetzke and the activist and DJ Ari Robey-Lawrence for a panel discussion, the musician Tatiana Heuman aka Qeei to play an exclusive music performance, and the sound artist Lendl Barcelos and Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter (both contributors) for remote readings in the lovely courtyard of Motto Books Berlin.

Expect an engaging evening with critical questions, challenging sounds, and refreshing drinks. Co-moderated by Norient Books editor and Sound Studies researcher Carla J. Maier and Norient editor and writer/musician Philipp Rhensius.

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Detailed Program

7.30pm presentation & panel
8.30pm readings
9pm music performance

Free entry, donations welcome
Books will be available

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Physically Present

Andrea Goetzke works as a curator and cultural producer in Berlin. Andrea Goetzke is a contributing author to Politics of Curatorship.

Ari Robey-Lawerence is a Berlin-based cultural researcher, electronic music producer, and DJ from Oakland, California. Ari Robey-Lawerence is a contributing author to Politics of Curatorship.

Tatiana Heuman, a Berlin-based producer, artist, and researcher, aka Qeei. She performed in various festivals like CTM, Heroines of Sound, and Tauron Nowa Muzyka. Luminous is her latest hybrid-club-sound work, released on Infinite Machine in 2023. Tatiana Heuman is a regular Norient collaborator for Snap Sounds.

Carla J. Maier is a sound studies researcher and editor of Norient Books. She is the author of Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation (2020) and On Rhythming: A Manifesto (with Melissa Van Drie, 2022). Carla J. Maier is an editor at Norient Books.

Philipp Rhensius is a Berlin-based writer, musician, sociologist, musicologist, curator, and editor of Norient. In his music and art projects (Alienationist, Kl.ne, aphtc), he merges sonic fiction with sardonic poetry and visceral club sounds. Philipp Rhensius is co-editor and contributing author to Politics of Curatorship.

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Remotely Present

Lendl Barcelos listens to implicit modes of aural culture from a kataphysical perspective as an artist, writer, and DJ. Lendl’s works have been presented internationally and he is often seen laughing. Lendl Barcelos is a contributing author to Politics of Curatorship.

Thomas Burkhalter is an anthropologist/ethnomusicologist, AV artist, and writer from Bern. He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space, and the founder and strategic director of the Norient Festival. Thomas Burkhalter is a contributing author to Politics of Curatorship.

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Order Now

You can order the book directly via our Shops on Bandcamp or Big Cartel. Find also other books and vinyl on the shop’s sites.

Price: 34 EUR + Mailing

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