Curations

Wie hat sich der Klavierbau weiterentwickelt und welche pianistischen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten eröffnen sich neu? Das explorative und kollaborative Performance-Projekt Hyperplexia kann man jetzt live erleben.

The TIMEZONES podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today?

We are excited to announce the screening of the film Contradict – Ideas for a New World by Thomas Burkhalter and Peter Guyer at the opening night of the 4th EthnoKino Film Festival.

Norient director Thomas Burkhalter will hold an audiovisual lecture and discussion under the title «Challenges of World Building – The Norient Perspective» at Unsafe+Sounds festival for challenging sounds and discourse.

We are celebrating the release of the virtual exhibition Norient City Sounds. Bogotá with an event hosted by the Goethe Institut in Bogotá, Colombia.

Jazzhane festival transforms the Rote fabrik, featuring new music from the Silk Road and beyond. Norient willl will be on a panel discussion with Palestinian filmmaker, writer, journalist, and cultural activist Rami Younis, moderataed by Bassma El Adisey.

Norient and Rewire collaborate again for a digital publication, this year dedicated to the theme of environmental listening. Presented in an assembly, Norient invites festival-goers to discover the diverse sonicities of Delhi, Karachi, and Colombo at the festival for adventurous music in The Hague, Netherlands.

Two world premieres of the new show by Thomas Burkhalter (AV-artist and founder/director of Norient) and Daniel Jakob (music producer / Dubokaj, Dejot). Concerts with two dancers, singers, film, and anthropology. How can I talk about the world?

After the Norient Festival Emma Nzioka aka Coco Em and producer Ka(ra)mi will represent Norient at the Colomboscope Interdisciplinary Arts Festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Norient with Coco Em & Ka(ra)mi on the decks at Colomboscope Festival, Sri Lanka.

The world through sound, film and video: The 13^th Norient Festival addresses global challenges of our time. From January 10 to 14, 2024, we aim for an open dialogue about the future of this global community through nearly 20 interdisciplinary and internationally curated events.

For the second edition of «Sonic Worlding», Norient editor Philipp Rhensius aka Alienationist invites the sonic experimentalist Nour Sokhon and electronic musician Justin to Arkaoda club Berlin.

Norient wirkt am interdisziplinären Kunst- und Soundfestival X_ARTS mit. Festivalbesucher*innen können den experimentellen Podcast TIMEZONES entdecken und an einem Live-Talk neue Ansätze für eine diversere und gerechtere Kurationspraxis kennenlernen.

This program brings together experimental audio and visual works from filmmakers, artists, and musicians based in the city of Beirut, Lebanon. The aim is to cast light on the artists’ distinct approaches to the city’s past and present. Curated and presented by Rayya Badran.

To mark the launch of the Norient Online Special «Norient City Sounds: Delhi», there will be a series of events starting off with the Release Event in Delhi. Hosted by Khoj Studios in Delhi, this will be an evening of responses, discursive presentations, talks, live performances and sets by some of the contributors in the edition.

Norient continues its collaboration with the Festival Planet Ears in Mannheim. Join us for a live listening session of the experimental podcast series TIMEZONES, where we will face the challenges faced by artists in Kenya, and the war-affected Ukraine.