Politics of the Voice Documentation

In the context of Courtisane Festival 2024 (Gent, 27 – 31 March 2024), with the support of KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts.

The voice emanates from within.

Here are seven artists who are not afraid of the sound of their own voices — whether embodied, sonic, visual, spoken, recited, conversed, unvoiced, silent.

They do not take their agency or freedom to express for granted.
They know these freedoms have been hard won.

This is the Politics of the Voice.

(Elaine Mitchener)

Curated by Elaine Mitchener. In the context of the research project Echoes of Dissent (KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts Gent).

X-Ray Hex Tet Reader

For the programme Echoes of Dissent (Vol. 5) // X-Ray Hex Tet (19 – 20 October 2024, Les Ateliers Claus Brussels) and the research project Echoes of Dissent (KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts Gent), we compiled a reader. Please mail me if you want me to send a copy.

CONTENT

1. Nathaniel Mackey, ‘All Day Music’. From Nathaniel Mackey, Double Trio, New York: New Directions (2021).
2. Gregg Bordowitz & Fred Moten, ‘Precedent’. Transcribed from Some Styles of Masculinity Book Launch with Gregg Bordowitz & Fred Moten (October 2, 2021). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udCjZGTEwkw&t=788s (13’08-18’17).
3. Stuart Hall, ‘Conjuncture’. Transcribed from Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life (2004). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY4Ve_r1PHU (media foundation transcription).
4. Nathaniel Mackey, ’14. VI. 78’. From: Nathaniel Mackey, Bedouin Hornbook (From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Volume 1), Lexington : University of Kentucky (1986).
5. Excerpt from Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, Situated Learning. Legitimate peripheral participation, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press (1991).
6. James G. Spady, ‘Interview with Sylvia Robinson’. From James G. Spady, Charles G. Lee, H. Samy Alim, Street Conscious Rap, Philadelphia, PA: Black History Museum Umum/Loh Pub (1999).
7. Aurelia Martín-Casares and Marga G. Barranco, ‘The Musical Legacy of Black Africans in Spain: A Review of Our Sources’, Anthropological Notebooks 15, no. 2 (2009).
8. Anne Carson, ‘On the Total Collection’. From: Anne Carson, Short Talks, Brick Books (1992).
9. Excerpt from Crystabel Riley, ‘Skincare/Uncare’, Beauty Papers (online) (2018).
10. Abstract from Cristiana Costa da Rocha, ‘The Limits between Exploration and Slavery in the Carnauba Wax Cycle’, Belo Horizonte 77 (2020).
11. Jacques Derrida, ‘The Law of Genre’ (Trans. by Avital Ronell), Critical Inquiry 7 (1980).
12. Marie Prince, The history of Mary Prince: A West Indian slave. Related by herself (1831)

Reader compiled by X-Ray Hex Tet. edited by Stoffel Debuysere. Design by Ran de Vos (In Vitro). In collaboration with Les Ateliers Claus, Courtisane, Auguste Orts and In Vitro, with the support of VGC (Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie) and Q-O2. 

Shadows of the Unseen / Movement Radio 41

41st episode of “Shadows of the Unseen” for stegi.radio Athens. Airing October 2024

1. Pat Collins and Tadhg O’Sullivan, Silence/Sound (from the film Silence, Pat Collins, 2012)
2. Jean Schwarz, Awakening (from the performance piece Undici Onde, Carolyn Carlson, 1978)
3. Rafael Toral, Development (from the film By Flávio, Pedro Cabeleira, 2022)
4. Pascal Gaigne, Katsehp I (from the performance piece Iguzki Hauskara, Mizel Theret, 1984)
5. René Lussier, Rosace blanche / Les prisons / anti-chambres de la mort (from the film Chronique d’un génocide annoncé, Danièle Lacourse, Yvan Patry, 1996)
6. Ennio Morricone, Nel Vuoto (from the film Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Perbene, Luciano Ercoli, 1970)
7. Gunnar Sønstevold, Om Tilla (from the film Om Tilla, Arne Skouen, 1963)
8. Henning Christiansen, The Reality is a Ghost in My Mind (from the music theater piece Rosenfest, Fragment XXX, Carlo Quartucci, Carla Tatò after Heinrich von Kleist’s play Penthesilea, 1984)
9. Michèle Bokanowski, Cirque (Finale – Parade) (from the dance-video Solo, Robert Cahen, 1989)
10. Ahmed Malek, Omar Gatlato (from the film Omar Gatlato, Merzak Allouache, 1976)
11. Jean Schwarz, Five Women (from the performance piece Still Waters, Carolyn Carlson, 1986)

Bodies of Sound

An edited version of the conversation I had with Trinh T. Minh-ha in the context of the Courtisane festival 2023 will be published in the amazing collection Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver press, November 2024), edited by Irene Revell and Sarah Shin.

With contributions from:

Sara Ahmed, Ximena Alarcón, Svetlana Alexievich, Ain Bailey & Frances Morgan, Anna Barham, Xenia Benivolski, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson & Kite, Elena Biserna, Karen Barad & Black Quantum Futurism, Anne Bourne, Daniela Cascella, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Maria Chávez, Don Mee Choi, Carson Cole Arthur, Petero Kalulé & AM Kanngieser, Lindsay Cooper, Julia Eckhardt, Lucia Farinati & Claudia Firth, Ella Finer, Annie Goh, Louise Gray, Christina Hazboun, Johanna Hedva, Sarah Hennies, Tomoko Hojo, IONE, Lee Ingleton, Hannah Catherine Jones, Christine Sun Kim, Nat Lall, Cathy Lane, Jeanne Lee & Lona Foote, Marysia Lewandowska, Annea Lockwood & Jennifer Lucy Allan, Cannach MacBride, Elaine Mitchener & Hannah Kendall, Alison O’Daniel, Naomi Okabe, Pauline Oliveros, Daphne Oram, Gascia Ouzounian, Holly Pester, Roy Claire Potter, Anna Raimondo, Tara Rodgers, Aura Satz & Barbara London, Shortwave Collective, Sisters of the Order of Celestial Nephology, Sop, Syma Tariq, Marie Thompson, Trinh T. Minh-ha & Stoffel Debuysere, Salomé Voegelin

Doc’s Kingdom 2024 – Susana de Sousa Dias

Welcome to Doc’s Kingdom!

SUSANA DE SOUSA DIAS is a filmmaker and artist from Portugal. Her films and installations explore the dialectics of history and memory, questioning established regimes of visibility with a focus on the archive. Using still photographs and archival imagery, her first works (2000-2017) deal with the memory of the dictatorship in Portugal. Through testimonies from political prisoners, and resulting from extensive research in the national archives, her work played an important role in the public denunciation of the violent repression and torture used by the regime. More recently, she directed Fordlandia Malaise, in 2019, and co-directed Viagem ao Sol, with Ansgar Schaefer, in 2021. She often collaborates with her brother António de Sousa Dias, composer and artist, in the creation of the soundtrack for her films. Her work has received numerous awards and has been presented worldwide.
In 2012, she created a female collective that directed Doclisboa for two editions, establishing new sections such as Cinema of Urgency and Passages (Documentary & Contemporary Art). She is a co-founder of the production company Kintop. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts-Video, and teaches at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Lisbon.
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Doc’s Kingdom – Ways of Listening
International Seminar on Documentary Film
19-23 Nov 2024 | Odemira, Portugal
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Doc’s Kingdom 2024: Odemira, 19-23 Nov.