THE POLITICS OF CURATORSHIP @ jazzhane festival

04.07.2024 | 20:00 – 04.07.2024 | 22:00 CET

Zürich (CH)

From July 4 to July 6, jazzhane festival presents new music from the Silk Road and beyond at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich, Switzerland. Norient willl will be on a panel discussion on the Politics of Curatorship. Palestinian filmmaker, writer, journalist, and cultural activist Rami Younis, who co-founded and manage the first-ever Palestine Music Expo that connects the local Palestinian music scene to the worldwide music industry, will discuss with Norient founder and director Thomas Burkhalter on new approaches for a more diverse and equality in curatorship, as he suggest in the latest Norient anthology Politics of Curatorship. Read the first six of 13 curatorial principles here. The panel discussion will be moderated by Bassma El Adisey, curator at the Aargauer Kunsthaus and Contemporary Art Histories lecturer at the F+F School for Art and Media Design in Zurich.

Spanning over three days, jazzhane festival hosts open-air and indoor concerts, dj sets, music workshops, panel discussions, and visual sonic lectures with artists from Gaddani, Karachi, Istanbul, Aarau, Zurich, Bern, Lugano, Haifa, Lyd, Öresund, Berlin, and more.

with Thomas Burkhalter (anthropologist, founder Norient), Rami Younis (founder Palestine Music Expo, filmmaker, Harvard fellow), and Bassma El Adisey (curator Aargauer Kunsthaus, lecturer, F&F School of Art and Design Zurich).

program & tickets

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Thursday, July 4, 2024

20:00-22:00 The Politics of Curatorship
with Thomas Burkhalter (anthropologist, founder Norient), Rami Younis (founder Palestine Music Expo, filmmaker, Harvard fellow), and Bassma El Adisey (curator Aargauer Kunsthaus, lecturer, F&F School of Art and Design Zurich)

Friday, July 5, 2024

13.00-15.00 Percussion workshop
for Kids with Farida Hamdar at Kinderkulturraum
16.00-19.00 Introduction to Djing
with Hvitling at Fabriktheater Introduction to Electronic Music Production with Mehmet Aslan at CB Lab

+++ other workshops to be announced +++

20.00-21.30 Visual Sonic Lecture
The Intimacy of (Be)longing: A musical journey through memories and dreams of the Turkish diaspora with Kornelia Binicewicz (anthropologist, founder Ladies on Records, curator, dj)

Club

Al Qasar (live)
Kalben (live)
Dj Set Kornelia Binicewicz
Istanbul Ghetto Club (live)

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Ustad Noor Bakhsh (live)
Šuma Covjek (live)
Lalalar (live)
Kety Fusco (live)

Dj Set Hiba Salameh
Dj Set Mehmet Aslan
Dj Set Hvitling
Dj Set Timboletti

Location

Seestrasse 395
8038 Zürich
Switzerland

Norient City Sounds: Bogotá – Release Event

04.09.2024 | 18:00 – 04.09.2024 | 21:00 COT

Bogotá (CO)

We are celebrating the release of the virtual exhibition Norient City Sounds: Bogotá with an event on September 4, 2024 from 6pm COT hosted by the Goethe Institut in Bogotá, Colombia.

After an introduction by curator Luisa Uribe and Goethe Institut Colombia’s director Stephanie Maiwald, you can expect an evening filled with performances, video projections, listening stations for our various sonic contributions, reading modules for the articles, and more.

The artists and participants will delve into key questions and topics of the multimedia publication titled Bogotá Voices, exploring Colombia’s clashing capital city and diverse music scenes together in a wider dialogue. 21 artists, collectives, and activists have contributed to a diverse digital collection of experimental sound pieces, interviews, DJ sets, essays, short films, photo series, and more to experience Bogotá’s sonic voices in a unique way.

Detailed program

The entry is free, and no application is needed.

6:30pm Discourses

Welcoming words by Goethe Institut Colombia’s director Stephanie Maiwald and an introductory notes by curator Bogotá-based anthropologist-sociologist and cultural manager Luisa Uribe.

Listening stations and reading modules invite participants throughout the evening to immerse themselves into the digital publication. Soundwalks about the sounds of water, the relationship of the city with nature, the trajectory of delivery guys and special mixes.

7pm Live Performance
by Peche 007, Ice 007 y Nova de Rá

A performance inspired by the contradictory sounds of the city and the way in which queer communities have created a space of their own.

7:30pm Video Projections

From contributing artist LadyHunterTexas: They discover Bogota’s gritty, desolate streets and the vibrant stories of four key figures from the local electronic and queer scene in their comissioned video essay La Ventana (Marica) Indiscreta.

From contributing music label In-correcto: In honor of eight years of groundbreaking work by the local label, Camilo Casallas and Santiago Alvarez present a video essay B de Burro that explores Bogotá’s dynamic cultural evolution through historical footage and powerful spoken word.

+++ The exhibition will be open until September 27, 2024 (free entry) +++

Norient City Sounds: Bogotá – Release Event (photo: Gregorio Díaz/Las Alegrías).

Norient City Sounds: Bogotá – Release Event (photos: Gregorio Díaz/Las Alegrías).

Location

Cra. 11a # 93-52
Bogotá, DC,
Colombia

Norient x Rewire 2024

05.04.2024 | 00:00 – 07.04.2024 | 23:59 CET

The Hague (NL)

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.

When talking about listening in the broadest sense, listeners are usually at the centre of attention, while they actually always already coexist with any other lifeform. So, what if the sound listens back? In the joint new Online Special When the Sound Listens Back, artists and authors from the Rewire and Norient network and performing at Rewire Festival 2024 share they’re thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a collection of essays, podcasts, and a playlist.

Sound Walk by Anna Khvyl, Rotterdam 2023 (photo: Ran Perry).

Assembly: When the Sound Listens Back

Fri, Apr 5, 3.30-5pm CET
Venue: The Grey Space in The Middle

Join us for the assembly on the publication at The Grey Space In The Middle, moderated by curators Katia Truijen and Philipp Rhensius.

Invited artists Heloisa Amaral, Justin Bennett, Brandon LaBelle, Golnoosh Heshmati, Saint Abdullah, meLê yamomo, Giada Dalla Bontà, and contributors Anna Kvyl and Salomé Voegelin will bring sonic material to collectively listen to, followed by an informal conversation on modes of listening across different times and territories, and their complex sonic ecologies.

Environmental Listening in Delhi

Fri, Apr 5, 1-2pm CET
Venue: Page Not Found

What does it mean to listen to the city in different ways? How does one listen when the sounds of resistance are silenced? What is the soundtrack of a time spent in a prison? Can birds still be heard in the midst of noise pollution? What does the break of dawn sound like? When does the sound of celebration become violent? What is it in all these soundscapes that recalls the past and that proposes alternate futures?

These and other questions will be touched in this listening session. It will present an online publication called Norient City Sounds: Delhi, published in September 2023. It is part of the Norient’s multimedia series of virtual exhibitions and digital publications that explores and portrays the sounds of cities across the globe. After the earlier editions on Nairobi (2022) and Beirut (2022), NCS Delhi unpacks and complicates the notion of Delhi by scattering into many cities of Delhi with the colliding histories, timescales, and spatial arrangements, living archives and echoes of the past. The contributions by 29 artists unconceal the polyphonies within the ocean of sound that is Delhi, moving across eras, genres, practices, and impulses. NCS Delhi is curated by Suvani Suri, a Delhi-based artist and researcher.

On Friday April 5, curator Suvani Suri and Norient curator and editor Hannes Liechti will enter into a conversation on the deeply layered and composite sensorium of a city that both senses and is sensed in a multitude of ways in NCS Delhi and will present and comment on videos, compositions, and images from the publication.

Credit: Ammar

TIMEZONES: Listening to Delhi, Colombo, and Karachi

Fri, Apr 5, 12.00-12.45pm CET
Sat, Apr 6, 12.00-12.45pm CET
Sun, Apr 7, 12.00-12.45pm CET
Venue: The Grey Space in The Middle

How does sound form, un-form and re-form our meanings and speculative realities during times of crisis? In what ways protest can be voiced with music? And what does it feel to be an artist in a city of a million plus dreams, hopes, and problems?

▛

▛

We are looking forward to collectively listen to three episodes of Norient’s experimental podcast series TIMEZONES at Rewire Festival 2024.

Fri, Apr 5, 1-2pm CET Imagining Worlds and Making Meaning With Four Artists From Delhi – introduced by Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter

Sat, Apr 6, 12-12.45pm CET Aragalaya: Inside the People’s Struggle in Colombo – introduced by Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter

Sun, Apr 7, 1-2pm CET Chaotic Karachi: Expressions for Sanity – introduced by Norient curator and editor Hannes Liechti

By the way: You can listen to these TIMEZONES episodes at a listening station at Page Not Found!

TIMEZONES is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut.

Credit: Carroll Omuom

Instrumental Ecologies: Music Journalism Today

▛

Sun, Apr 7, 3.30-4.45pm CET The Grey Space in the Middle

Journalists Laura Snapes (The Guardian), Margeaux Labat (Marg.mp3), and Norient founder and director Thomas Burkhalter will enter into a conversation on the state of music journalism today. How can one understand the changing ecology of specialist music platforms, independent media outlets and their struggles, and the shifting role of music journalists? Which editorial formats engage critically and creatively with music today and feel especially effective and valuable? The panel talk is moderated by Hugo Emmerzael and followed by the launch of a magazine, elaborated by participants of the workshop Rewire Reflections covering Rewire Festival 2024.

Link

Rewire full program 2024