Expanded Listening – New Spaces (On Air)

Expanded listening as an act of resistance.

From the very naming of the project, “Expanded Listening – New Spaces (On Air)”, the artists led with an understanding of listening as affective, deep and active practice (as well as performative and physical).

Each one of their artistic labs deals in different ways with practices of listening and its manifestations through engagement with different concepts, artistic practices and uses – including as a consciously exercised activity and a tool to mobilise and empower in the under-resourced and underfunded scenes and communities.

Throughout the labs, they will also focus on the theme of listening as a call to assembly: how radio as a “non-physical” space plays a vital role in the call for mobilizing communities in times of crisis.

Further, they seek to explore and understand the ways in which specific under resourced and marginalized communities in Berlin use the two interlinked worlds of alternative radio and performing arts as avenues for archiving and reconnecting, particularly in the aftermath of the pandemic’s effect on spaces of cultural congregation, as many of them have closed down.

They will invite artists and listeners to question concepts of listening, reacting to and experiencing sound performances in “expanded” listening sessions.

Artists (among others): Jumoke Adeyanju, Richard Akingbehin, Jacqueline Saki Aslan, Leo Bauer, Lukas Grundmann, Ibrahim Habi, Anton Kats, Sianza King, Litchy Ly Friedrich, Amuleto Manuela, Nadine Moser (LAB OF EXCHANGE), Thomias L. Radin, Shiru, Siegmar Zacharias & others

Project Team: Oscar Ngu Atanga (Artistic Director & Curator), Sarah Israel (Artistic Director & Curator), Sarah Zeryab (Production Manager & Curatorial Collaboration), Teddy Tawil (Videographer & Visual Consultant), Jamila K. Grote (Photographer), Venue partners: Cashmere Radio & Refuge Worldwide