The Silent Mass I Carry Around

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The Silent Mass I Carry Around
The Silent Mass I Carry Around

Even at a time of fragmented digital selves, people often align with a single self-description, suppressing their multiplicities. In this essay, our author attempts to re-sample the embattled term (self-)curation, in search of its supposed emancipatory potential.

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Like a Fragrance in a Room

Snap Artwork by Sergio Salazar (Like a Fragrance in the Room)
Like a Fragrance in a Room
Like a Fragrance in a Room

What happens when curation resists any form of guidance? For Rebecca Salvadori, video artist and artistic co-curator of Norient Festival 2022, this led to a silent rush of creativity. A claim for positive disorientation.

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On Exposing the Curatorial «Us»: Curatorial Notes #1

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On Exposing the Curatorial «Us»: Curatorial Notes #1
On Exposing the Curatorial «Us»: Curatorial Notes #1

How can we decentralise the power of curatorial spaces? According to our writer, we need to take into account irrationality as a creative process.

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Design: Elias Chen

Haunted by an Invisible Sound

Snap Artwork by Sulgi Lie (Haunted by an Invisible Sound)
Haunted by an Invisible Sound
Haunted by an Invisible Sound

How does sound shape visual perception in a movie? Watching «Memoria» by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, film scholar Sulgi Lie is shaken by a heavy bass that has no visible source.

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Quote: Sulgi Lie

Montréal, Your Ears Are My Island

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Montréal, Your Ears Are My Island
Montréal, Your Ears Are My Island

A portrait of Montréal’s diverse music scenes, their global connections and historical roots; and an exploration of the effects of gentrification.

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Quote: Kimihiro Yasaka
Design: Šejma Fere
Sound: Joseph Sannicandro

Music as Embodied Practice

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Music as Embodied Practice

How does a body-self express itself in a digital sphere? In her reflection on a 12th century poem and the singing at anti-CAA protests in India, our writer reassesses the body in pandemic times.

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Design: Elias Chen

My Difference Between Watching and Seeing a Film

Snap Artwork by Sergio Salazar (My Difference Between Watching and Seeing a Film)
The Difference Between Watching and Seeing a Film
My Difference Between Watching and Seeing a Film

Selecting a film for a festival requires us to look beyond pure preference. In this essay, Chafic Tabbara, film critic and co-artistic director of Norient Festival 2022, shares his thoughts on curating films for cinema in the age of online streaming.

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Amorphous Arab

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Amorphous Arab
Amorphous Arab

Can one pursue the past through reimagining the present? Veteran musician Yacoub Abu Ghosh and sound experimentalist Rehab Hazgui talk to Norient about merging tradition with recent techniques at the «Mirath:Music Sound Exhibition», a project by the Goethe-Institut.

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Post-Euphoria – A Moment Frozen in Time: Part 4

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Post-Euphoria – A Moment Frozen in Time: Part 4
Post-Euphoria – A Moment Frozen in Time: Part 4

In the final part of his Post-Euphoria series, Guy Baron discusses using stripped-down electronic dance music motifs to suggest ambivalent euphoric experiences and capture fleeting moments.

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Design: Ali Sayah
Sound: Guy Baron

Beirut: Traces of a City – A Pod Poem

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Beirut: Traces of a City – A Pod Poem
Beirut: Traces of a City – A Pod Poem

A reflection on the current uncertainties experienced in Beirut and how they have influenced creative processes.

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Quote: Muriel Kahwaji
Design: Šejma Fere

Electronic Adventurers

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Electronic Adventurers
Electronic Adventurers

Watching «Sisters with Transistors» reminds Ruth Saxelby that electronic music is a doorway to endless worlds of wonder.

 

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Design: Šejma Fere