SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia issue 6.1 is now out! Many thanks to Roger Nelson, Eva Ben, and Annie Jael Kwan for the thoughtful editing of this special issue. I contributed a short ‘rumination’ article entitled “Dis/Obedience Performed” about my conversations with friends, Therese… Continue reading
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“Eigenschwinungen – Forces of Overtones” premieres next week
On Thursday, Eigenschwinungen – Forces of Overtones will conclude the Autumn 2021 edition of »Decolonial Frequencies« Festival. Come join us at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. In this piece, I worked with cellist Eurico Ferreira Mathias to listen to the social compositions of fundamental and over tones that resound in our communal lives…. Continue reading
»sonus–the sound within us« returns onstage as part of »Decolonial Frequencies Festival«
Today, on the main stage of Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, we re-assemble sound, memory, performativities, and history. From Friday until Monday, we reprise DECOLONIAL FREQUENCIES: sonus – the sound within us as part of the #decolonialfrequencies festival. Pepê Dayaw, Ariel William Orah, Karlene Moreno-Hayworth, and Katherina Oliver join me as we traverse… Continue reading
Donaueschingen Global: The sonus in Contemporary Music
On Sunday, my video-lecture-performance will be shown at the Donaueschinger Musiktage. In this piece, I situate my reflection of the ‘sonus’ in contemporary art music’s reflexive meta-musical re-evaluation of itself as a sonic medium. I am, however, twice removed from this ‘performative’ act. I am physically not in the Donaueschingen–as… Continue reading
Sandeep Bhagwati’s »The Sound Of Misunderstanding – Dhvanivala‘s Sonic Explorations« opens the Decolonial Frequencies Festival
This Sunday (19 September 2021) at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, we are opening the »Decolonial Frequencies« Festival with Sandeep Bhagwati‘s “The Sound Of Misunderstanding – Dhvanivala‘s Sonic Explorations”. * * * In the early 1960s a young Indian student comes to Darmstadt to do a PhD in physics. Cold War era –… Continue reading