Writer and theorist Brandon LaBelle will give a presentation on the brand new Listening Biennial Reader, which draws attention to listening as a relational capacity, a philosophical and ecological proposition, a creative practice, and research method.

Two artists and researchers – Yewande Adeniran (aka Ifeoluwa) and NZIRIA – will present their explorations of different temporalities, and how artistic means of the digital can be used to combine techno-futuristic ideas with elements of folklore rooted deep in the past, ancient spiritual traditions, and mythological ideas.

As a consequence of the progressive disappearance of performative spaces caused by economic and political policies and the multiplication of niche »no-audience underground« subgenres, many artists have moved into a thriving online digital underground that shuns spatio-temporal specifics to create its own folklore vernacular. These global communities of artists will be explored in a panel discussion with music writer Miloš Hroch, and researcher Luigi Monteanni among others.

In the physical venue sphere, a panel discussion moderated by Resident Advisor’s Editor-in-Chief Whitney Wei assembles representatives from Generation Z – Altay Bozkurt, Eugene Angelo, and KLAUW Collective's Fenna de Jong. This generation is often missing in clubs and festivals, run by millennials, or Gen Xers. As these nascent 18-25 year-olds become acquainted with this counterculture, what's their take? And what challenges will arise?

Within the context of Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine and the current uprising in Iran, a panel discussion moderated by Mariana Berezovska of Borshch Magazine will bring together several performers from the RIDNE/Rybachka evening at HAU2 – Diana Azzuz, and Nazanin Noori – plus Radio Lab commission winner Anna Kravets, to exchange on their experiences of the expectations around cultural production in times of war and oppression.

Singeli is the raw, unpolished sound of Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania. A panel moderated by Kathleen Bomani will bring together some of singeli's key players, including Queen Asher & Rehema Tajiri, and Jay Mitta. Jan Moss' new film Singeli Movement: Greed For Speed, documenting the rise of singeli in its birthplace, will also be shown.

The »We Found Our Own Reality« programme will reflect upon exchanges and resonances between the Indian and global experimental music and design communities both historically and into the present, featuring talks by Rahila Haque with Paul Purgas, Regina Bittner, You Nakai, Nabihah Iqbal, and Coven Code’s Lush Lata.

The 2023 Portals Discourse programme will come to a close at HAU2, with GROUP 50:50's »The Time For Denial is Over.« Activists and thinkers from Europe and Africa are invited to discuss the foundations for a transnational restitution movement.