The Academy of the Arts of the World was founded over ten years ago. In the meantime, not only has the ADKDW evolved, but the fabric of the world is constantly changing - through wars, uprisings, migrations, pandemics, melting ice, devastating fires, scarcity of food resources and shifts in capital. For *Not Afraid of Art*, the ADKDW has invited artists and thinkers to explore how the world, the world of art and the world of cultural institutions can be rethought. The commissioned works include texts, drawings and sound pieces and circulate in the ADKDW's digital and physical publications.

with TROPICAL DIASPORA (DJ GARRINCHA, DJ DR. SÓCRATES)

moderated by MAX JORGE HINDERER CRUZ

DJ and producer GArRinchA (São Paulo, but Berlin-based since the 1990s) and cultural researcher DJ Dr. Sócrates founded the event platform and record label Tropical Diaspora in 2008. Tropical Diaspora Records produces vinyl records and views production as a means of empowerment, as a way of supporting artists and raising awareness of past and present stories of the African and neocultural diaspora – imposed by enslavement, economic causes, and the flight from war and poverty. DJ GArRinchA and DJ Dr. Sócrates will present some of the label’s productions and talk about the founding of the label, which itself is in a state of diaspora.

Learning to Listen is a podcast format that explores different forms of listening – both listening and not listening – and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The focus is on learning and unlearning to listen and engaging with internalized mindsets. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not, and to interweave auditory events with anti/decolonial education. The individual episodes are conceived as heterogeneous audio essays; the invited guests have free rein over their concept and realization.

Language: English

Available at Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify

With contributions by ABEOKUTA, BANDO, DOCTOR NATIVO, EL SANTO GOLPE, EL V AND THE GARDENHOUSE, FORRÓ DE CABEÇA, GEKAH, HÖRÖYÁ, LA DAME BLANCHE, LA FANFARIA DEL CAPITAN, LA RUEDA, LOS MADE IN BARCELONA, OGUNHÊ, RAPADURA, RENATO GAMA, REGIS MORENO, RIOSENTÍ, SKA MARIA PASTORA, SUPER SPANISH COMBO, TRANSILVANIANS

Production and Audio Design Learning to Listen: KENO MESCHER

with OLIVIER MARBOEUF

moderated by MAX JORGE HINDERER CRUZ

Olivier Marboeuf is an artist, poet, curator, and producer, whose recent work with audio and soundscapes is centered around the “politics of frequency.” Marboeuf, whose biography and research interests are largely connected with the Caribbean, confronts us with what he calls the “dimensions of sonic resistance” of the communities of the African diaspora. For our understanding of this dimension of sonic resistance, listening and un-listening are just as pivotal as speaking and de-speaking. In his audio essay he will examine the act of speech as well as collective speaking and listening – essentially, the possibility and impossibility of speaking and listening.

Politics of Frequencies is the first step of an artistic research around Creole conversation as a cacophonic listening space that translates the paradoxical situation of a need to speak while protecting one's word, to speak in ‘de-speaking’. And thus, to produce a sense in a collective gesture of repetition, accumulation and saturation. A sense that calls for presence and remains inaccessible and opaque for those who want to stay away. A sense that requires both the ear and the mouth to travel in the entanglement of the voices and the hospitality of the frequencies.

Learning to Listen is a podcast format that explores different forms of listening – both listening and not listening – and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The focus is on learning and unlearning to listen and engaging with internalized mindsets. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not, and to interweave auditory events with anti/decolonial education. The individual episodes are conceived as heterogeneous audio essays; the invited guests have free rein over their concept and realization.

Language: English

Available at Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify

Recorded between August and September 2021 in Port-au-Prince (Haïti) and Saint-Denis (France).

Concept: OLIVIER MARBOEUF

Texts and Lectures: ROSSI JACQUES CASIMIR, OLIVIER MARBOEUF

With Voices of: SHELO FRANCOIS (PLEB MIZIK), STEEVE PIERRE LOUIS, DARENS JABOUIN, JEFF RON, ALAN SANDARSEN (JUSTICE), DAVID AND JAMES PETER ÉTIENNE (MIMETIK NEG)

Translation: LIZ YOUNG

Sound: VICTOR DONATI

with CHIMURENGA (NTONE EDJABE)

moderated by MAX JORGE HINDERER CRUZ

Ntone Edjabe is a DJ, curator, and journalist. In 2002 he founded the cultural platform Chimurenga, which includes the magazine The Chronic, the online Chimurenga Library, the Pan African Market in Cape Town, and the radio project Pan African Space Station. In his sound collages, Edjabe interrogates the audible as well as our understanding of music and audio consumption and the conditions governing it.

Learning to Listen is a podcast format that explores different forms of listening – both listening and not listening – and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The focus is on learning and unlearning to listen and engaging with internalized mindsets. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not, and to interweave auditory events with anti/decolonial education. The individual episodes are conceived as heterogeneous audio essays; the invited guests have free rein over their concept and realization.

Language: English | French

Available at Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify

Featuring solos by FRANCO LUAMBO MAKIADI, PEPE FELLY MANUAKU,

BANSIMBA BAROZA, DIBLO DIBALA, DALLY KIMOKO, FLAMME KAPAYA, SARAH SOLO, JAPONAIS MALADI, KIMBANGU SOLO

Commentary: RAY LEMA

Production and Audio Design Learning to Listen: KENO MESCHER

with DANIELLE ALMEIDA

moderated by MAX JORGE HINDERER CRUZ

Danielle Almeida is a singer, educator, and researcher. For her project Diaspórica she has spent over sixteen years researching Afro-Latin American female singers who have been written out of history or forgotten and their song forms – the result is an extraordinary repertoire of songs. In her audio essay she will interpret a selection of these songs, interweaving recorded live performances with the biographies of the singers and reflections on the racist and sexist mechanisms implicit in the hegemonic narratives of cultural history.

Learning to Listen is a podcast format that explores different forms of listening – both listening and not listening – and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The focus is on learning and unlearning to listen and engaging with internalized mindsets. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not, and to interweave auditory events with anti/decolonial education. The individual episodes are conceived as heterogeneous audio essays; the invited guests have free rein over their concept and realization.

Language: English | Portuguese

Available at Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify

General Direction, Presentation, Production, Research and Texts: DANIELLE ALMEIDA

Musical Direction and Arrangements: SAMUEL CARTES

Editing, Mixing and Mastering: FLÁVIA FONTOLAN

Vocal Training: DIEGO MAURILIO

Audio Capturing: GUSTAVO SANT’ANNA (Estúdio Arsis),

P. SOULJA (Estúdios Casa PretaHub)

Translation: KARLA MENDONCA DOS SANTOS DANY

Speaker: NOELLE O'BRIEN-COKER

Production and Audio Design Learning to Listen: KENO MESCHER

with DANIELLE ALMEIDA

moderated by MAX JORGE HINDERER CRUZ

Danielle Almeida is a singer, educator, and researcher. For her project Diaspórica she has spent over sixteen years researching Afro-Latin American female singers who have been written out of history or forgotten and their song forms – the result is an extraordinary repertoire of songs. In her audio essay she will interpret a selection of these songs, interweaving recorded live performances with the biographies of the singers and reflections on the racist and sexist mechanisms implicit in the hegemonic narratives of cultural history.

Learning to Listen is a podcast format that explores different forms of listening – both listening and not listening – and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The focus is on learning and unlearning to listen and engaging with internalized mindsets. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not, and to interweave auditory events with anti/decolonial education. The individual episodes are conceived as heterogeneous audio essays; the invited guests have free rein over their concept and realization.

Language: English | Portuguese

Available at Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud and Spotify

General Direction, Presentation, Production, Research and Texts: DANIELLE ALMEIDA

Musical Direction and Arrangements: SAMUEL CARTES

Editing, Mixing and Mastering: FLÁVIA FONTOLAN

Vocal Training: DIEGO MAURILIO

Audio Capturing: GUSTAVO SANT’ANNA (Estúdio Arsis),

P. SOULJA (Estúdios Casa PretaHub)

Translation: KARLA MENDONCA DOS SANTOS DANY

Speaker: NOELLE O'BRIEN-COKER

Production and Audio Design Learning to Listen: KENO MESCHER

Das Hörstück Akkordarbeit im halbverbrannten Wald – eine Adaption der gleichnamigen Lecture Performance – lädt dazu ein, die blinden Flecken in der Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte der Bundesrepublik nach 1960 zu durchleuchten. Texte von Fakir Baykurt aus dem Ruhrgebiet der 1980er-Jahre begleiten Tanç dabei ebenso wie Emine Sevgi Özdamars Stück Perikızı: Ein Traumspiel. Akkordarbeit im halb verbrannten Wald ist der Titel des fünften Kapitels von Özdamars Adaption von Homers Odyssee, entwickelt im Auftrag der Ruhr.2010 für das Projekt Odyssee Europa. Bezogen auf regionalhistorische Mythen wie die Bergarbeiter*innen des Ruhrgebietes, auf regionalen Strukturwandel und Globalisierung verhandelt Özdamar ‚Arbeit‘ als intellektuelle Leistung.

Texte von Nesrin Tanç werden von der Autorin selbst, Adriana Kocijan und Hicran Demir gelesen. Sie stellen Fragen nach der Verantwortung staatlicher Archive in einer pluralen Gesellschaft, sind Wissenschaft, Wut und intimer Mutter-Tochter-Dialog. Sie bewegen sich so zwischen dem Zwang, abliefern zu müssen und dem Wunsch, sich auszudrücken – Arbeit eben.

Alice Hasters, Fatima Khan, Anja Saleh, Anja Saleh und Karosh Taha sprechen über ihre Wege zum Schreiben und diskutieren alternative literarische Praktiken nicht-weißer, queerer und multilingualer Menschen, die nach wie vor eher selten vom traditionellen Literaturbetrieb abgebildet werden. Sprache: Deutsch

Alice Hasters, Fatima Khan, Anja Saleh, and Karosh Taha talk about their writing and discuss alternative literary practices of non-white, queer, and multilingual people, who are still rarely represented by the traditional literary establishment. Language: German

Was bedeutet Sprache jenseits von Informationsvermittlung? Max Czollek und Anna Schapiro sprechen über Sprache als künstlerisches Arbeitsmaterial und darüber, wie wir unsere eigene Sprache finden können. Sprache: Deutsch

What does language mean beyond the conveying of information? Max Czollek and Anna Schapiro speak on language as a raw material for art-making and how we can find our own language. Language: German