DICE: Orbital Entities Programme

Volume 4

Saturday 26 March

14:30 bindiram – Grief Stewardship 

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Through this recent portal we entered that changed the whole world, we reached a liminal space where many now urge us to return to “normal.” Amidst this constant state of suspension, we have all felt significant grief, causing a deep dissonance with the current acceleration of our societies. This grief compounds all electronic transmissions in every facet of our world. As we shape our future, we must take care to steward this grief, individually and collectively, in order to make meaning and deepen our connection to our creative selves. Through grief stewardship, we hack into our electronic transmissions by resisting our current landscape. Through grief stewardship, we proactively honor how grief shows up in our lives, by examining our branches of grief and finding their roots. We reconceptualize grief as a necessary process to transformation, and reclaim our power to create. Through grief stewardship we take space to define what is possible, how we can live, and what constitutes “a new normal.”

Grief Stewardship is an interactive workshop by bindiram, where participants will learn the concept of grief stewardship and its role in their artistic practice. Participants will receive and conceive ideas for their own stewardship, and experience a performance that embodies grief stewardship using sonic art.

16:00 Anahita Neghabat & Caren Miesenberger – doomscrolling is messing up my head but it’s also all i can do in this shitty pandemic 

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They are meme makers and they are tired. We’d already been doomscrolling for hours before the pandemic, but being physically isolated has increased the already extensive time many of us spend on social media. While it has numerous positive aspects, it can also certainly be emotionally and physically draining. That’s why they will publicly talk about strategies to navigate the tension of using social media as a creative and emotional outlet while simultaneously dealing with the exhaustion and frustration that comes with creating and posting content and dealing with online audiences.Join them in a wholesome to together think about how to set limits, when to switch off the phone and how to follow to feel better.

17:30 Cru Encarnação – Dissociative Methods of Sound in Performance 

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This presentation will be based on a lecture called “Non-diegesis: Dissociative Methods of Sound in Performance”, where I explored different techniques of cognitive manipulation of socially embedded, politically enforced and collectively cultivated ideas and assumptions through the use of sound specifically in performance. I expanded on some concepts of filmic language to reflect on ways through which sound and image are manipulated digitally, that could be transferred to the physical properties of performance.

In this lecture I will talk about the way that sound in performance can affect perception in a similar way that film, photography or electricity affected society when they were first commercialized: the fear of these new media that defied the entanglements of sound and image of the time brought very important changes to the notions of life, death and others. Also similar effects of reality-questioning that are accomplished through magic performance are the ones I seek in my own performances.

Performance is more than the presence of the body and the focus on the artist, it should also be about the presence of perception apparatuses with an extended focus on the audience.

By addressing the historical ties between technology and magic performance I try to transfer what we have gained from the digital realm to performance art. How can we follow a history of cognitive manipulation that can also have a political potential of uplifting and protecting marginalized bodies? How do we bring techniques of digital sound-image-manipulation to the physical realm of performance? How can we destroy meaning and recreate it?

19:00 Daily Rhythms Collective feat. Mandy Mozart – More Sugar, Honey!

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We talk about the colonial history of sugar. Daily Rhythms Collective is discovering ancestral trails that connect our own heritage to the sugar trade. 

Weaving our stories into a ritualistic and performative format made available through video.

Sunday 27 March

13:00 Angel-Ho (NON Worldwide), Dasychira (unseelie), and Nadine Schildhauer (moderator) – Sonic Visions without Aesthetic and Geographical Borders

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A conversation with two artists about their work in transnational music collectives 

Within just a few years a number of globally active music collectives have been established with similar perspectives on electronic music and club culture. These transnationally organized collectives take on more than the work of traditional labels’, also putting on club nights, hosting radio shows, and organizing art exhibitions. They have developed sound and visual aesthetics that have influenced pop music, and formed communities beyond niche club culture. Sounds, performances, texts and radio shows serve as common territory for the collectives who organize themselves online across national borders. Their music cuts-up multiple genres, samples, and sounds unconventionally, blending in and modifying references to games and films. 

This panel will discuss practices of collaboration, transnational music production and the role of a sonic fiction in music collectives.

14:30 Anthony Hüseyin – Songwriting Workshop

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Did you ever want to tell your or a story by writing a song?

Were you ever curious about why we love some songs more than others? How do these songs connect us and become our common ground? 

What makes a good song? 

What kind of constructions and forms impact our songwriting?

Furthermore, on what are these songwriting forms historically based? 

What kind of tools do you need in order to shape your own unique story?

 In this 2 hours workshop Anthony Hüseyin will share with you some useful information on songwriting. Simple analyses of some of the songs – compositions from different eras and genres will give a better understanding on how our ears are constructed for the centuries; from classical to pop. Sharing songwriting tools will help you to understand how do you want to tell your story. 

In order to deconstruct the given forms first we need to understand the construction and their history. 

Having pen and paper is enough. 

This workshop is open to everyone; listeners, amateur and professional musicians. 

16:00 Jenifa Mayanja – Mentoring incubator Workshop

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The Mentoring incubator workshop is about providing a safe space to provide critique and community by providing measured, pinpoint, insightful constructive feedback. The constructive feedback has specific approach that avoids personal assessments and focus on the work presented. This is also an opportunity for artists that have been isolated to come together with peers and get inspired, encouraged and supported.

18:00 Hannsjana – Genderpolizei

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Wer sich gegenüber sexistischen Vorfällen kritisch äußert oder einen gendersensiblen Sprachgebrauch fordert, ist häufig mit Kritik und Beleidigungen konfrontiert. Hinweise auf sexistisches Verhalten werden gerne mit Sätzen wie „hier kommt die Gender-Polizei“ quittiert. Kann diese destruktive Beleidigung parodistisch angeeignet werden? Was wäre, wenn man bei einem sexistischen Vorfall tatsächlich eine staatlich legitimierte Exekutive anrufen könnte? hannsjana gründet die Gender-Polizei und begleitet sie mit der Kamera auf ihren Einsätzen gegen den vermeintlich unwesentlichen Alltagssexismus. In einer Online-Performance stellt sich die Gender Polizei vor und zeigt ihre wichtigsten Einsatzgebiete. 

Performance: hannsjana, Kamera und Schnitt: Marie Weich, Sprecherin: Vera Moré, Kostüm und Ausstattung: Àngela Ribera

Kurzbiografie

Das feministische Künstlerinnenkollektiv hannsjana erarbeitet seit 2011 Performances, Audio-Touren, Konzerte und Filme. In ihren vielschichtigen Arbeiten durchdringen sie humorvoll, musikalisch und wissenschaftlich konkrete und abstrakte Räume, um sie sich selbst und ihrem Publikum erfahrbar und erklärbar zu machen. Sie verkaufen Aktien an ihrer Performance, treten als Boyband oder Angela Merkel auf und erklären Auto-Tuning zu einer salonfähigen queeren Praxis. hannsjanas Arbeiten waren unter anderem an den sophiensælen (Berlin), am Nationaltheater Mannheim, dem Luzerner Theater, dem Kunstfest Weimar, der Berghain-Kantine (Berlin), im Künstlerhaus Salzburg und am Theater Thikwa (Berlin) zu sehen.

The theme of our 2021-22 DICE edition is Orbital Entities. As a theme, it aims to explore how individuals, networks of individuals, and existing structures in the music landscape and society at large have maintained connection, cohesion and community, and at what cost, while adapting to uncertainty and ever-changing, often potentially permanent new conditions.

What are the forces that pull us? What bodies draw us? What paths do we take in times where the usual pathways are blocked? Who do we keep in our own orbit? What keeps us anchored and what propels us further along our creative trajectories? How do we continue to find connection in a reality which is both hyper-connected and dislocated?