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Café Univers, by Syma Tariq and Francesca Savoldi

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A temporary recording studio at Contour Biennale 8’s Opening Weekend Public Programme / DAI Roaming Assembly #12, Café Univers draws on conversations, music and live internet/FM radio feeds from across the globe to dialogue freely around sound, place and histories of struggle. The episodes navigate mainstream radio stations via the Radio Garden website as well as music chosen by presenters. The project melds sonic exploration of south/south solidarity and the collapsing of physical/digital spaces vis a vis the chaotic dynamics of listening to the radio while rotating the globe.

Café Univers is a project conducted by Syma Tariq and Francesca Savoldi and supported by R22 RadioAppartement22

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Episodes 1, 2 & 3: Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam have been making films together for three decades on the recurrent subject of Tibet, in which they are intimately involved.They chat with us about the music of their film ‘Drapchi Elegy‘ and the songs performed and recorded by a group of nuns imprisoned for protesting peacefully. We chat as well about the role of radio in the Tibetan diaspora, music of exile and the meaning of its contemporary influences.

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Episodes 4 & 5: Karrabing Film Collective are from the Belyuen community on the Cox Peninsula across Darwin Harbour, Australia. They took up filmmaking after being made homeless, and use media as a means to express protection for their ancestors, sacred sites and mother country. The films represent their lives, create bonds with their land, and intervene in global images of indigeneity. Gavin Bianamu, Rex Edmunds and Elizabeth A. Povinelli speak to us about filming, family, Australian radio music and screwing copyright.

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Episodes 6 & 7: Denise Ferreira da Silva offered at Contour Biennale 8’s Public Programme notes on a theory of transformative justice, assessing contemporary (total, institutional, symbolic) violence and raciality while interrogating a value-based proposal for practical decolonisation (ie, construing and then demanding the wealth back). She speaks to Café Univers about Brazilian radio novelas, cultural value extraction and hip hop, among other personal subjects.

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Episode 8: Pedro Neves Marques is (together with Mariana Silva) behind inhabitants – an online channel for exploratory video and reporting. He comments on one of the works presented at Contour Biennale 8, ‘Hobby Lobby vs. The Allegory of Justice’, which revolves around an interesting case from 2014 in the US, where corporations claimed for the first time their religious rights to suppress providing health care and contraceptives to employees. Travelling together though Radio Garden we try to find evidence of the Trump era on US airwaves.

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Episode 9: A chat with Mariana Silva, co-founder of inhabitants with Pedro Neves Marque. She is a Portuguese artist based in New York. As well as navigating Radio Garden with us through night radio broadcasts and transmissions from the Azorean archipelago, she connects some of the works produced for Contour Biennale 8 with her reflections on the US Women’s March on Washington, which took place on March 8 2017.

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Episode 10: Pedro Gómez-Egaña drops by to tell us about the piece he produced for Contour Biennale 8 and related research that explores the complex tradition of riddles in polyphonic manuscripts of the Flemish region, and the enigmatic silence they contain. Continuing with the task of listening, we tune into the airwaves of his homeland, Bucaramanga (Colombia). Pedro is an artist whose recent works gravitate around questions of temporality in the intersection between technology and culture.

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Episode 11: A recording of the last eight minutes of Rana Hamadeh‘s soundplay, « Can You Make a Pet of Him Like a Bird or Put Him on a Leash For Your Girls? » (40″). Structured through the oratorical tradition of the Shiite ceremony of Ashoura, it takes its political, military and legal expressions with the Lebanese/Syrian contexts as its field for commentary and research. Centred around the murder of Hussain, the Prophet’s grandson, it is a terrible and beautiful mixture of vocal trauma and dark trance. Headphones advised.

R22 Audioguide / « Histoires plus que parfaites » de Mustapha Akrim

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Conversation audioguide sous forme de conversation entre l’artiste Mustapha Akrim et le curator Abdellah Karroum.
enregistrée a L’appartement 22, le 14 décembre 2018.
Mustapha Akrim en résidence a L’appartement 22 du 25 août au 11 décembre, en préparation de son exposition personnelle programmée du 12 décembre 2018 au 11 février 2019

Dix ans après sa première résidence d’artiste à L’appartement 22, Mustapha Akrim revient sur les lieux avec un projet grandiose, ambitieux et sonore. Il explore notre relation au monde et à l’histoire à travers une conscience aiguë du présent -espace et temps- dans lequel l’œuvre se construit, utilisant les matériaux de construction pour la lecture d’un possible passé. L’artiste développe un projet en deux chapitres, utilisant les images historiques comme élément de réflexion sur la mémoire collective, des histoires plus que parfaites. Le public est appelé à “découvrir” les scènes cachées, l’exposition “Histoires plus que parfaites” se construit dans la durée de l’excavation des éléments par chaque visiteur.

More information:
http://www.appartement22.com/spip.php?article445

Hassan Khan: el wahda elkebeera (The Big One), 2009, at Palais Bahia, Biennale de Marrakech

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The Big One opening performance by Hassan Khan
Concert organized at Palais Bahia, with R22 Art Radio and L’appartement 22

راديو الشقة 22 يقدم حسن خان مع أجدد انتاجاته الموسيقية الواحدة الكبيرة سهرة مع شعبي مصري معاصر و صوتيات إلكترونية 19/11/2009 19:00 R22 Art Radio presents Hassan Khan live in concert with his latest set The Big One new wave synth-shaabi and toneworks.

At Palais Bahia, Hassan Khan performs his piece « The Big One. » This set juxtapozes original, hardcore, synth-based, experimental shaabi workouts with delicately wrought tonal compositions. All live instrumentals were generated in a series of late-night recording sessions with shaabi musicians and arrangers. For one central track in the introduction of the piece, Khan asked a professional popular singer,usually a performer at weddings, to scream and sing anything, imagining himself in the presence of a deaf audience; the singer is pushed to hysteric screams, screaming unintelligible words.

Thanks to Hassan Khan

Fadma Kaddouri & Isa Stragliati – Running and Getting Lost in the Sky

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Fadma Kaddouri invited Isa Stragliati   to a collaborative work between sound matter and word matter.The poem « Running and Getting Lost in the sky » is an ode to life for those who today are on the seas, the roads of exile fleeing war, fear and their aftermath of dehumanization. In the poem the wind is omnipresent, it is the allegory that manifests itself in the freedom to be in its possibilities of realization, it represents hope.

Fadma Kaddouri a invité Isa Stragliati a un travail de collaboration entre la matière sonore et la matière des mots.
Le poème « Running and Getting Lost in the sky » est une ode de vie pour celles et ceux qui aujourd’hui sont sur les mers, les routes de l’exil fuyant la guerre, la peur et leurs suites de déshumanisation. Dans le poème le vent est omniprésent, il est l’allégorie qui se manifeste dans la liberté d’être dans ses possibilités de réalisation, il représente l’espoir.
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KARIM RAFI: ANNEAUX DE SATURNE PROJECT ı ÉTUDE N°9 ı PART 2

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Les Anneaux de saturne – expériences
Gentrification ségrégation spéculation déclin émergence
ou comment les villes modernes sont la représentation miniaturisée du monde.
Les nouvelles représentations de l’espace urbanistique et du monde via les nouvelles technologies réduit le monde en un espace virtuel non sensible nous pouvons ainsi déambuler à travers l’endroit de notre choix n’ayant comme limite que la technologie. Ici c’est une pièce dont le titre est inspiré de phénomènes astrophysiques représentant les luttes qui se manifestent dans ces espaces mondes comme espace politique Créations sonores, pic nique, déambulation, modification d’objets urbains en objets artistiques, transformation de lieux frontières en passerelles, des lieux transitoires en lieux d’art.
Création d’espace d’émergences d’expériences poétiques esthétiques et politiques sont des tentatives de transformation de ces rapports virtuels au monde et du temps de circulation en lieu, finalement de circulation d’idées.

Karim Rafi

Fadma Kaddouri: Qui parle?

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Qui parle ? Est un projet sonore vivant-végétale-minérale réalisé lors de l’expédition #10 dans le cœur du Rif, du 13 au 16 juin 2012.

A la recherche de la route-empreinte de l’écrivain Mohamed Choukri…depuis son village de Beni Chiker, d’Est en Ouest au Nord du Maroc ses pas m’ont guidés dans la région de Beni’Boufrah, Badis et les rives de la grande bleu.

Sur la route et sur le bord de mer j’ai surpris des voix d’enfants comme des papillons virevoltants de toutes parts, le chant d’un fou poète, une grotte habitée par la méditerranée et ses filles méduses, des joncs salés et indomptables, des chants d’amour sur K7, des galets blancs, au goût de cumin que la mer sublime chaque jour entre ses fluides mains…

Cheminant son empreinte d’Est en Ouest la route me conduit à présent vers l’antre du fou des roses…Tanger.

Aurora Pellizzi: Serpientes, exhibition at L’appartement 22, from 26 Feb – 15 May 2016.

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Audioguide with artist Aurora Pellizzi, Curator Natalia Valencia, and L’appartement 22 Artistic Director Abdellah Karroum.

Aurora Pellizzi’s exhibition project at L’appartement 22 is part of a long standing enquiry around traditional textile practices originally started by the

artist in Oaxaca in Mexico some years ago. After a research period that included a residency in Fez and dialogue with women weavers from the Sefrou Amazigh community in the Middle Atlas, Pellizzi produced works that explore fertility and the female body’s relation with hidden knowledge, pointing to the ambiguities implicit in the role of women in society. Her pieces defy the gendered notion of domination ascribed to women by exploring the alternate functional and spiritual planes where women exert specific forms of empowerment. The project aims to consider the traditional production of textiles as a refined technology used for story-telling, community binding and time keeping.

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