Runs:
26.1.–1.2.2025
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Public Presentations:
27.1..2025 | 14:00
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Finale and Roundtable:
1.2.2025 | 14:00
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The artistic fellows will be working during the festival week at radialsystem studios. They will present their current solo work in short, public presentations on Tuesday 27 January 2026, and share insights into some of the ideas, processes and conversations explored during the week at a roundtable discussion on the festival’s closing Sunday 1 February. During CTM Festival week, numerous other concerts and inputs will also complement the lab’s theme, including new premiere works by Sote, CORIN, and Marcin Pietruszewski with Lucas de Clerck.
About the lab
Resynthesising the Traditional is a multi-year thematic thread that dives into questions on the traditional. When does something become a tradition? Who defines it, who belongs within it, and why? How do traditions remain recognisable? When do they change into something completely new? How are traditions governed? What are their restrictions, why do these exist, who breaks them, and why? How can we work with the repeated flattening of histories to suit dominant voices, instead finding echoes of buried pluralities within the traditional? These are only some of the questions that motivate this thematic line of inquiry.
At the heart of this thematic thread is the namesake artistic lab, which is designed as an open toolbox for artists exploring how to (re)connect to »the traditional,«, and is intended to help them navigate their practice outside of (self-)exoticisation and the uneven power dynamics created by mass-cultural and other stereotypes. Evoking resynthesis – a processing method in computer music that analyzes sounds to extract their fundamental components – as a guiding metaphor, the lab also invites participants to confront conservative views of culture as something frozen, thus resistant to any transformative practices.
Updates
Please note that Saba Alizadeh is unable to attend the lab and wishes to share the following statement: »In light of the recent devastating events in Iran and the personal loss of a family member, I regret that I do not presently have the emotional or physical capacity to join CTM’s wonderful community. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.«
Due to unforeseen circumstances Bint Mbareh is unable to travel to the lab in Berlin.