The Time for Denial Is Over 2

04th Feb 2023 04th Feb 2023 15:00 18:00

Joseph Kamaru (KMRU), Ketan Bhatti, Pamela Owusu-Brenyah, Elia Rediger, Fabrizio Cassol, Kojak Kossakamwe, Patrick Mudekereza

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HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)12 / 8 €

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  • GROUP50:50

    INT

    The collective of artists from Congo, Switzerland, and Germany incorporate a production structure based in Basel, Berlin, and Lubumbashi that realises and produces transnational artistic cooperation projects.

  • Eris Drew

    US

    The High Priestess of the Motherbeat, the DJ, producer, and trans ecstatic from Chicago runs the T4T LUV NRG label with her loving b2b partner Octo Octa.

  • Funeral Folk

    SE

    The collaboration between Sara Parkman and Maria W Horn explores the rituals of grief and the musical phenomenology of death through their respective crafts and influences.

  • Jessica Ekomane

    FR/DE

    The French-born, Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist’s practice unfolds around live performances and installations.

  • Katarina Gryvul

    UA/AT

    The Ukrainian composer, producer, sound artist, violinist, and educator focuses on a variety of timbres and sound textures, mixing organic sounds and classical music with progressive forms of electronic music production.

  • Katarina Gryvul

    UA/AT

    The Ukrainian composer, producer, sound artist, violinist, and educator focuses on a variety of timbres and sound textures, mixing organic sounds and classical music with progressive forms of electronic music production.

  • Peter Kirn

    US/DE

    Peter Kirn is an electronic musician and media artist. His music spans experimental and club sounds, with releases on Detroit Underground, Wunderblock Records, Kotä Records, and his own Establishment, among others, from scored concert music to work with modern dance and techno.

  • Peter Kirn

    US/DE

    Peter Kirn is an electronic musician and media artist. His music spans experimental and club sounds, with releases on Detroit Underground, Wunderblock Records, Kotä Records, and his own Establishment, among others, from scored concert music to work with modern dance and techno.

    • Live stream

    The second of a two-day discourse programme accompanies the presentation of »The Ghosts are Returning,« a post-documentary music performance about seven pygmy skeletons brought to Geneva from Congo by a Swiss doctor in the 1950s. Since the 1960s, a movement of globally networked artists, intellectuals, and activists has persistently advocated for the restitution of African cultural assets and ancestral remains as an integral part of post-independence decolonisation. After a long period of stagnation, the debate on restitution has accelerated in recent years, with examples such as the Treasures of Béhanzin to the Republic of Benin, or of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Countless initiatives by artists and cultural institutions have emerged worldwide to advance and accompany this restitution process. At this historic moment, GROUP50:50 invites artists, activists and thinkers from Europe and Africa to further discuss the foundations for a transnational restitution movement.

    Photo: Group50:50

    Programme

    Towards Non-extractive Practices in Contemporary Music

    »Temporary Stored« talk and listening session with Joseph Kamaru (KMRU)
    Talks by Ketan Bhatti and Pamela Owusu-Brenyah, moderated by Elia Rediger

    To this day, musicians from the Global North appropriate music from countries in the Global South and achieve great financial and professional success with it, while the musics’ creators or the cultures of origin receive neither attention nor recognition. In doing so, Western artists disregard the musicians' copyrights, which cannot be enforced due to a lack of legal foundations or appropriate collection societies. Thus, extractive practices of ethnomusicologists during the colonial period, who served the European archives, continue. How can new forms of collaboration develop and foster an equal and inspiring exchange?

    The sound artist Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU will present a talk and listening session examining his work, »Temporary Stored« in which the artist questions the significance of sound archives for the history of colonial violence. Using synthesiser sounds, field recordings, and recordings from the archives of the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, he sets out to reappropriate the sounds that were stolen. Following the presentation, curator Pamela Owusu-Brenyah and composer and musician Kettan Bhatti present short talks moderated by GROUP50:50 co-founder Elia Rediger.\

    The Use of Music for a Decolonial culture of Remembrance (FR/ENG)

    Performance by Fabrizio Cassol and Kojak Kossakamwe
    Fabrizio Cassol and Kojak Kossakamwe in conversation with Patrick Mudekereza

    Music plays a central role in the ritual practices interwoven with cultural artifacts in European museums, as well as in the inhumation of Ancestral Remains formerly stored in museums and university archives. How can contemporary musicians accompany the restitution of cultural artifacts and Ancestral Remains and participate in a decolonial culture of memory in European and African cities?
    Following a performance, the musicians Fabrizio Cassol and Kojak Kossakamwe speak with writer and curator Patrick Mudekereza.

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    Presented on the occasion of »The Ghosts Are Returning« – a project by PODIUM Esslingen with GROUP50:50 and the Centre d’Art Waza Lubumbashi. Funded by the German Federal Agency of Civic Education.