#DecolonialFrequencies Festival continues this spring with unexpected encounters and premieres. We also reprise earlier compositions and sound performances. In its second edition, non-hegemonic dialogue takes centerstage. A postmigrant artist’s life is a decolonial act. We invite musicians, sound artists, and performers who meet each other for the first time to… Continue reading
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
The DFG Project “Akustische Störungen. Postkoloniale und queere Potentiale sonischer Interventionen” at Freie Universität Berlin headed by Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch is looking for Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral researchers. The project takes my work on sound as a method of decoloniality as its theoretical starting point. „Wenn wir an Kolonialismus… Continue reading
Margaret Munchheimer interviewed me for the podcast series The Big Playback. She asked me about my work as a sound artist and sound historian, and I shared my practice and philosophy on how I consider sound as a method of decolonization. I spoke about my theory of the sonus which… Continue reading
Remix Almanya – A Post-Migrant Hip-Hop Narrative. We put together a story. A story which has become a remix of rap, migration and empowerment, in which the ambivalent echo of four decades of Almanya reverberates. What does the music of the so-called “guest workers” of the 1960s and 1970s and… Continue reading