CRY OF THE SOIL
sonic dances to live through
It is an artistic research & living archive combining ecosomatics, sonic choreography, folk music and intercultural dialogue; instigated to feel from within the flesh of the world we are part of.
Our flesh is drying out. Our flesh is melting away. Our flesh is exploited and extracted. And we keep on breathing. On our map of thoughts, we combine saliva, moist, sweat, tears, drought, fumes, and weather fluxes.
We turn specifically towards traditional folk music practices as critical tools for shaping the futures. We are interested in their cathartic, rebellious and relation-building functions and potentials. We look for the ways of holding on together in the times of rising divisions and fears. It comes from the longing to reconnect to the place, to lived collectivity, to emotions and senses.
We understand voice and music primarily as an intimate somatic experience. We are interested in the quakes that voice and collective music practices provoke on social and somatic levels:
What is this affective charge between sounding and listening? How does music affect us as sentient social beings and facilitate going through difficult experiences? How does it help us to understand and shape sociality? How does it make us swell out beyond our bodily contours – becoming a boundless community of pulses and flows?
We instigate collective processes of learning ABOUT and WITH selected folk music traditions. We use tools derived from action fieldwork understood as a process of becoming and choreographic practices: we focus on the tangibility of sound, deep listening techniques, explore ways and spaces to raise, release and sustain the voice, work with the affective and kinesthetic potential of music, research historical, geopolitical and ecological contexts, and relate to culture as biology. This allows us to explore folk music practices from the perspective of intertwined somatic and social, personal and systemic experiences.
HOUARIYAT : MARRAKESH
20-26.02.2023RESIDENCY AT QUEENS COLLECTIVE & WORKSHOPS WITH KASBA HOUARIYAT IN MARRAKESH
CALL UP THE BEAUTY
LIVING ARCHIVE #1
Houariyat
Queens Collective
Nashat
The Erotic as Power
Connective Tissues
Practice #1: Rhythm
Practice #2: Pulsations
LIVING ARCHIVE #1
GNAWA
: ESSAOUIRA
27.02-5.03.2023
GNAWA TRADITION & ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
IN ESSAOUIRA
LIVING ARCHIVE #2
Gnawa
Lila
Aïcha Hamdouchia
Body-ings
and Permeable Environments
Deep
Listening
Gnawa
Reggae: Radical Transnational Politics
WasteFreeMedina
Ida Ou
Gourd Sugar Factory
Practice
#3: Musick-ing as a Way of Listening
Practice
#4: Sound Shower
Practice
#5: Becoming Hosts
AHWASH
: AMAZZER
6-12.03.2023
LEARNING AHWASH WITH HICHAM OUNAMIR & VISIT AT IBOURK FAMILY IN AMAZZER
GLITTER AND DESPAIR
LIVING ARCHIVE #3
Ahwash
Musick-ing as
Socio-Political Tool
The Oasis
Practice #6: Instant Collective Song-Making
LIVING ARCHIVE #3
PODLASIAN MUSIC : BIAŁOWIEŻA
30.05-5.06.2023RESIDENCY AT KULTURA KRESU & MEETING SINGERS FROM DOBROWODA IN THE PODLASIE REGION
LIVING ARCHIVE #4
Korowód
Singers from Dobrowoda
Białowieża Ancient Forest
Choreographies of
Absence, Whispers, Invisibility
Practice
#7: Singing across the Wall
Practice
#8: Singing to the Absent One
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