TIMEZONES – Season 4

by Turkana,

Fajr Soliman

Ale Hop

LinhHafornow

Ali Gul Pir

Compilation

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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? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political, and intellectual realities and their philosophies (of life) have been worked up into experimental audio collages. Season 4 travels from Kampala to Cairo, Lima, Hanoi and Karachi.

The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art, and improvisation. The TIMEZONES series endeavours to create new artistic forms of storytelling, listening and exchange across the boundaries of geography, time zones, genres, and practices.

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Tracklist

01 – Turkana:
When Creativity Meets Chaos

02 – Fajr Soliman:
Here and Now: The Subtle Pressures of Cairo

03 – Ale Hop:
Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Lima’s Sonic and Poetic Landscapes

04 – LinhHafornow:
Hanoi Undercurrents

05 – Ali Gul Pir:
Chaotic Karachi: Expressions for Sanity

The Episodes

E15 Kampala
When Creativity Meets Chaos

This episode offers insight into the uncompressed music scene in Kampala, Uganda. It looks into the evolution of (underground) club culture and shows how house parties contributed so much to create the roots of feeling safe and a support system in the music community. It further discusses the importance of the Nyege Nyege label and festival that has gained massive international attention lately.

A podcast by Turkana

E16 Cairo
Here and Now: The Subtle Pressures of Cairo

This episode hosts three Egyptian composers, musicians, and DJs of various backgrounds and music styles. It sheds a light on actors in the music industry and tries to understand the music scene from a first-hand perspective. An immersive sonic experience of the city of Cairo.

A podcast by Fajr Soliman

E17 Lima
Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing Lima’s Sonic and Poetic Landscapes

This episode looks into artistic ruptures and subjectivities in Lima, Perú, forged during a period of authoritarianism, economic recession, and widespread social hopelessness to understand the cyclical nature of Peruvian politics. It revisits the Peruvian subte (underground) scene, which created a space for young people to channel their frustrations through music.

A podcast by Ale Hop

E18 Hanoi
Hanoi Undercurrents

In this episode we travel to the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi and dive into its diverse sounds, noises, and artistic practices. We visit three female sound artists who talk about listening despite noise pollution, changing soundscapes through the past decades, how they collaborate with their peers, and how they cope with ongoing gender inequalities.

A podcast by LinhHafornow

E19 Karachi
Chaotic Karachi: Expressions for Sanity

According to the rapper and comedian Ali Gul Pir, Karachi is the most misunderstood place in the world. For TIMEZONES, he produced an episode that will give you a «real» feel of what it’s like to be an artist in this city of a million plus dreams, hopes, and problems.

A podcast by Ali Gul Pir

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Imprint and Credits

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Podcasts by Turkana, Fajr Soliman, Ale Hop, LinhHafornow, and Ali Gul Pir

Co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut

Featuring: Authentically Plastic, DJ Flo, Martin Kanja, Nsasi, Rey Sapienz, Rama, Nancy Mounir, El Waili,Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa, Wicho García, Fabiola Bazo, Domingo de Ramos, Wilder Gonzales Agreda, Frau Diamanda, Javi Vargas Sotomayor, FIl Uno, Nhung Nguyen, Ho Tram Anh, Hoan Thu Thuy, Babar Mangi, Sarah Waqar, Shehzad Ghias, Gul Muhammad

Featured on Sphere Radio Leipzig, Radio X Basel and Radio Bern.

Artistic Curation/Editors: Thomas Burkhalter, Svetlana Maraš, Abhishek Mathur, Suvani Suri
Project Management: Hannes Liechti
Jingle Voiceover: Nana Akosua Hanson
Jingle Mix: Daniel Jakob
Mastering: Adi Flück, Centraldubs
Artwork: Šejma Fere
Video Trailer: Carroll Omuom

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

The work of the artistic editors Suvani Suri and Abhishek Matur is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

Politics of Curatorship: Collective and Affective Interventions

by Philipp Rhensius,

Monia Acciari

(eds.)

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What happens to curatorial practices when treated as multi-voiced, pluralistic, and process-based? Politics of Curatorship: Collective and Affective Interventions asks what curatorship could be when it is freed from its elitist notions. It gathers essays, academic articles, poems, interviews, and photo essays from 33 contributors from all over the world. Together, they seek to open up the term from a linear and often single-voiced method, offering to understand curating also as a queer, non-binary, or a mundane, individual activity that includes one’s own experiences and perceptions. On the occasion of Norient’s 20^th anniversary, we attempt to disentangle the term curatorship from the received definition as a mere selecting process within the creative realm. Order now via our shops on Bandcamp or Big Cartel.

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Monia Acciari and Philipp Rhensius (eds.)
Politics of Curatorship: Collective and Affective Interventions

with 33 contributions incl. short essays, comments, poems, articles, and photo essays by Monia Acciari, AGF aka poemproducer, Ailín Grad aka Aylu, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Lendl Barcelos, Sandeep Bhagwati, Phila Bergmann, Thomas Burkhalter, Vivian Caccuri, Chico Dub, Daniel «duex» Fontana, Andrea Goetzke, Natalie Gravenor, Nikhila H., Rim Jasmin Irscheid, Raphael Kariuki aka DJ Raph, Steph Kretowicz, Felipe Larozza, Ari Robey-Lawrence, Sulgi Lie, Imaad Majeed, Laura Mascarenhas, Thea Reifler, Philipp Rhensius, Sergio Salazar, Rebecca Salvadori, Suvani Suri, Gisela Swaragita, Chafic Tabbara, Lucia Udvardyová, Gita Viswanath, Salomé Voegelin

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15,5 × 23 cm, 288 pages
ISBN: 978-3-9525444-4-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56513/duej2028

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Voices

For 20 years, Norient has been successfully publishing texts, films, and sounds that offer new ways to think about and with music and sound from all over the world. This book is a reminder of what Norient stands for: an urge for deep research that doesn’t ignore nor fetishize the senses, and constant questioning, expanding or revising of cultural canons. The volume shows that what has become known as «decolonization» to an often malevolent mainstream discourse might need to be addressed as a matter of curation and curatorship. A more challenging, surprising and less boring way of cultural production is not only a question of what but how one curates. May this book find the readers it deserves and needs.
Diedrich Diederichsen

This collection is an insightful curation in motion: it weaves together both nuanced and textured experiences, existences, imaginations, voices, presences, journeys, tales, stories, and narratives about the art of «cura» in all its forms – from photography, performing arts, journalism, film, music, sound, radio, DJing, and poetry. Critical outlooks onto curatorial worlds; radical affective and emotional engagements – sparkled with subtle humor, and astute craft – this contribution is an uplifting, refreshing, deep, joyful, and indeed both timely and urgent intervention!
Jenny Mbaye

About the Editors

Monia Acciari is an associate professor in film and television history at De Montfort University, U.K.; she researches and writes about film curatorship, film festivals, and Indian cinema (broadly speaking). She is also currently writing her monograph on the history of film festivals in India. She has been visiting professor at Indian universities and delivered practical courses on film festival organization and film history.

Philipp Rhensius is a Berlin-based writer, musician, sociologist, poet, musicologist, curator, and editor of Norient. His projects are driven by the idea that feeling the chains is the first step toward emancipation. Currently, he is doing artistic research on alienation, and works on new formats such as the audio essay and the monthly Norient column «Sonic Worlding» for which he invites contributors to think with rather than only about music and sound.