Curations

«Planet Ears», das Festival für weltweite Gegenwartskultur in der Alten Feuerwache Mannheim, geht in die dritte Runde und findet in diesem Jahr vom 15.–25. September statt. Norient ist Partner der diesjährigen Ausgabe und präsentiert ein Teilprogramm.

To mark the launch of Norient City Sounds: Beirut, we will be hosting two events in Beirut and Bern with live performances and a DJ set by some of the contributors in the edition.

Norient presents «Norient City Sounds: Nairobi», a multi-media feature exploring politically/socially «conscious» music in Nairobi. Release event featuring MC Sharon and Kamaa K'Shaka. Afterparty by The Mist.

The Norient Film Festival is co-curating its upcoming 11th edition (12–16 January 2022, Bern + online) for the first time with a multidisciplinary team, working from India, Lebanon, Switzerland, and the U.K.

Das Kino REX präsentiert von Juni bis November 2021 im Monatsrhythmus eine Nocturne-Reihe mit Musikfilmen, kuratiert vom Norient Film Festival.

In collaboration with the Musée d’ethnographie Neuchâtel MEN, the Norient Film Festival presents two open air nights in the museum park in June 2021. The screenings will feature films and videos from the Sahel.

The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021. With streaming on demand, online live events, commissioned video clips, and more. Program available now.

In einer Kooperation mit dem Affspace, dem Offspace für Architektur, zeigen wir während dem ersten Wochenende des Norient Film Festivals NFF 2021 in der Berner Altstadt Snaps, Kurzfilme, Musik Videos und mehr im Loop.

The audiovisual online exhibition asks critical questions about the current state of Orientalism. Norient invited international curators and authors from the Norient community to research contemporary music videos from Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi-Arabia, Iran, Central Asia and South Asia, and to re-imagine, parody, or deconstruct Orientalism.

On March 5, 2020, Norient officially releases the new and forward-looking Norient Space «The Now In Sound»: a virtual, transdisciplinary gallery and community platform at the juncture of art, journalism, and cutting-edge research.

This PhD project by Hannes Liechti investigates sampling strategies in (experimental) underground electronic pop music and aims to contribute to a greater «Ethnography of Sampling» in music which still has to be written.

Klang Moor Schopfe: Das Audio-Festival macht zeitgenössische Klangkunst hör- und erlebbar. Die zweite Edition bringt vom 30. August bis 8. September 2019 situations- und ortsbezogene Installationen nationaler und internationaler Kunstschaffender, Soundtüftler und Tonkünstlerinnen nach Gais AR.

Residence of three Swiss musicians together with the Egyptian Mazaher ensemble in Cairo and Fayoum. Intensive musical exchange and rehearsal with final concert in the Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts – Makan in Cairo.

The Norient Musikfilm Festival is back. After a year off, the 9th edition took place between January 10 and 13, 2019, in Switzerland (Bern, St. Gallen, Lausanne).

The 3rd biennial research conference by the German-speaking branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music was organized in cooperation with Norient with a focus on popular music and global relations.

In collaboration with the Rewire festival and Schauspielhaus Zürich Norient presents a new concert series with cutting-edge acts of today’s pop music on the theater stage. Vol. 1 with Jenny Hval and Ben Frost; Vol. 2 with Aïsha Devi and Tim Hecker.