We Found Our Own Reality: Talks

02nd Feb 2023 02nd Feb 2023 13:00 18:00

Paul Purgas in conversation with Rahila Haque

14:00

You Nakai

15:30

Dr. Regina Bittner

16:45

Lush Lata in conversation with Nabihah Iqbal

18:00

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  • Rahila Haque

    UK

    Rahila Haque is a curator, writer, and researcher. Her work considers artistic and critical praxes through the possibilities and entanglements offered by black and anticolonial feminist epistemologies.

  • 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.

  • Nabihah Iqbal

    UK

    The musician, producer, DJ and broadcaster from London made waves in 2017 with her debut album, Weighing of the Heart, on Ninja Tune, and is currently an artist-in-residence at London’s Somerset House, where she is writing and recording her second album.

     

  • Lil Mariko

    US

    Rising screamo queen Lil Mariko makes hardcore meme music – and it’s working.

  • Rahila Haque

    UK

    Rahila Haque is a curator, writer, and researcher. Her work considers artistic and critical praxes through the possibilities and entanglements offered by black and anticolonial feminist epistemologies.

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    JP

    Versatility does not even come close to describing how the humble Japanese DJ is considered to be one of the best in the world by many of his peers.

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    Complementing the exhibition, a daylong programme within CTM’s Discourse series will reflect upon the current situation of contemporary experimental and electronic music in South Asia and the global South Asian diaspora, giving new readings on the role of electronic sound within the ideological development of post-colonial India and its bonds with the Modernist philosophies of Germany and Europe.

     

    Photo courtesy National Institut of Design

    We Found Our Own Reality

    Paul Purgas in conversation with Rahila Haque

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    Curator and researcher Rahila Haque will be in conversation with Paul Purgas, unpacking the central themes and inspirations behind »We Found Our Own Reality,« discussing the influence of Western investment and soft power within post-colonial India and the conditions that defined the development of Modernism within art, design, and music across South Asia.

    Karmic Relationships, Accelerated: Influences & Incidents in India (and Beyond)

    Lecture by You Nakai

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    This talk surveys David Tudor’s long relationship to India, which culminated in his 1969 visit to Ahmedabad to establish the electronic music studio at the National Institute of Design, but was preceded by a strange history of exchanges and misunderstandings between Western mysticism and India, as well as succeeded by an equally strange history of consequences and byproducts that, among other things, might explain why I have been summoned to give this talk at CTM Festival today.

    Schools of Tomorrow: Design Pedagogies as Transcultural Affairs

    Lecture by Dr. Regina Bittner

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    In the geopolitical context of the Cold War and national independence, the NID in Ahmedabad and the HfG Ulm represent unique microcosms for the redefinition of the relationship between design and society. Embedded in international networks and exchange relationships of midcentury modernism, the entangled history of both schools  offers insights into the complex interplay of the struggle for concepts for contemporary design education. This lecture discusses the two experimental learning environments as breeding ground for debates focused on re-establishing a critical design practice capable of intervening in everyday life and by doing so striving to find a contemporary reference to the Bauhaus.

    Feminist Perspectives on Night Life and Music Scenes in India and its Global Diaspora

    Lush Lata in conversation with Nabihah Iqbal

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    Lush Lata, co-founder of Coven Code, India’s first all-female/non-binary electronic music collective, will speak with Nabihah Iqbal about feminist perspectives in India’s nightlife and music scenes.

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    Curated by Paul Purgas. Supported by Goethe-Institut, and British Council.