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This show was recorded and produced in collaboration with If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution. It is part of the Radio Emma series by If I Can't Dance, and unpacks key terms from their research into Bodies and Technologies (the field of inquiry during 2022-23) with invited local guests from various disciplines and practices.
You're welcome to join the broadcast live at If I Can't Dance in Amsterdam, Westerdok 606-608. Please arrive no later than 12.30, there's a free meal included.

Taking pedagogical practices as a crucial site where bodies and technologies converge, Devika Chotoe has invited three guests to share their insight on what it means to queer pedagogy and vice versa: how to feature queerness as topic of pedagogy. Together they will touch upon the different initiatives Sorab Roustayar, Feargal Agard and Elioa Steffen initiated to foster queer teaching and knowledge creation, ranging from archival and performative practises to organising kink workshops and play parties.

‘‘...we are queering the word ‘‘education’’, queering who is doing the teaching and who is doing the learning, queering ‘‘school’’ as we build ecoversities out of our homes and on the land, queering our bodies as we relate differently with ourselves and heal from the too small boxes they tried to fit us in, queering society as we build collective knowledges together outside of colonial institutions’’ (Kate Morales).

With:

Guests: Sorab Roustayar, activist and founder of Fite Qlub; Feargal Agard, archivist IHLIA LGBTI Heritage and founder of Humans of Film Festival; Elioa Steffen, creative consultant, writer and performer.

Host: Devika Chotoe, performance artist, writer and community builder, and currently research fellow at If I Can’t Dance.

Amara Higuera is an artist and writer from Los Angeles (the ancestral and unceded land of the Gabrielino-Tongva and Chumash peoples). She is exploring histories of precarity, resilience, and (re)generation through lens based inquiry and sound. She is currently writing poetry and making sound works as a practice of personal exorcism and artistic research.

This show consists of 3 episodes:

Amara Higuera, our artist in residency during the winter of 2023 presents the outcome of this period.

In the words of the artist, “Estoy Llamando, Regresando Tu Llamada” is a three piece audio collection searching for what needs to be said.

"If you're going to say it, can you say it here?
Are your lungs strong and ready?
Or more so, can you say it safely?
I recall the suffocation you mentioned.
Of that place where you can’t look at that, you can’t say that.
But, let’s say that I did?"

English translations:

Title: “Estoy Llamando, Regresando Tu Llamada” / “I’m Calling, Returning Your Call”

Ch. 1

(No translations)

Ch. 2

(First Voice)

"Hi, my daughter, why do you want me to tell you that story? No, it’s that, it’s very sad, no you don’t understand… (sigh)."

(Second Voice - Original Song)

"I hear him asking for me,
in my house, the house
I never returned to
His little hands, his hug,
his path, in my house, my house,
that I never returned to

"Without reason they took you from me,
from the house, my house,
that I never
returned to"

Ch. 3

"Talking with you, talking with me" (overlapped phrases in Spanish)

Credit to Eartha Kitt, who said it. And also to my family, who remember even when we forget.

From the Archives: Muro Sur Revisitado. Originally aired September 30th, 2022.

Artists who have participated in Muro Sur, in its different stages, meet to talk in the kitchen of the loft where the project originated in Santiago de Chile. Together with Rodrigo Ríos Zunino from Radio Tsonami and next to the wall that gave birth to this initiative, they talk about their memories.
Topics such as their past experiences with Muro Sur, the recording of their voices in ekphrasis, what has happened to them in recent times and towards which directions could artistic practice go in continuous contexts of crisis, appear in the conversation. The possibility of organizing around a politics of affection and friendship, as well as the contingency of Chile, the result of the new constitution’s referendum and the emotional landscape of this process are also themes that recur in this talk. Somehow, the typical organic conversations that characterize this project in its intimacy are shared publicly in this radio program.
This episode counts with the participation of Francisca García, Mario Navarro, Mónica Bengoa, Paz Errázuriz, Joaquín Cociña and Francisca Sánchez.

The Muro Sur podcast is produced in collaboration with radio Tsonami and radio Ja Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee Nee Nee and is supported by LAPS of the Rietveld Academy and Sandberg Instituut.

Channelling. Be a vehicle. A path. A hole. Go. Let go. Make way for something to happen. Something, the other. Be others. Guide. Make room and draw a line. Mark a step. Divide. Contain. Carry from one place to another. Create. A plan, a landscape, a spectrum, a call.

'Channelling' connects the medium of audio with other realms. Logistics, infrastructure, landscape transformation. As a practice, channelling takes many forms: tapping into otherwise unheard voices, an invocation, a form of transmission. In this online collective exhibition, three artists explore channelling through sound.

Curated by Andrea González, with works by Laia Estruch, Anahit, and Ainhoa Hernández Escudero.

Ainhoa Hernández Escudero's contribution to 'Channelling' is titled RAAAW. It is the first iteration of the project She Has A Message For You, which researches the phenomenon of spiritism that in the 19th century was an enabler for women and other excluded voices to be heard: a medium to speak through otherness, claiming a space of visibility in the intimacy of private spaces. Ainhoa describes her project as follows:

In RAAAW, I channel voices, stories, thoughts and presences from my room. The audio clips that you will hear are the result of seven different sèances I recorded at dawn during the month of October 2023. It is a practice I’ve kept up for many years, but this is the first time I have recorded it and shared it with others. The recordings are made with a binaural microphone, with the intention for you to to listen with headphones and your eyes closed.

Remember, the message is in your way of reading it.

Note 1: Some recordings are spoken in Spanish, while others are in English. If you would like a translation, please contact me at the address below. Algunas partes están en español y otras en inglés. Si necesitas traducción, escríbeme a la dirección a continuación.

Note 2: I want to continue channelling and recording in different spaces. If you have a suggestion for a place you want me to channel, please write to me:

List of recordings in RAAAW:

From the Archives - originally recorded July 6, 2020.

15:00 06-07-2020

Writers Sabrine Ingabire and Munganyende Hélène Christelle speak to Rita Ouédraogo, about the [back then] soon-to-be-launched publication Being Imposed Upon - a timeless love letter and manual by and for black women, a collection of reflections on being a woman and being black in Belgium.

Being Imposed Upon is a project initiated by Vesna Faassen en Lukas Verdijk. It unites non-fiction essays, literary reflections, poetry, activist and academic texts around black women's search for freedom. This book is a tribute to their elderly, heroes and sisters

Read more about the book at Publieke Acties. Please note that the publication is in Dutch and French.

Recorded in the exhibition WELKOM by Guy Woueté in de Brakke Grond. This show has been made possible with support from the Vermeylenfonds.

Channelling. Be a vehicle. A path. A hole. Go. Let go. Make way for something to happen. Something, the other. Be others. Guide. Make room and draw a line. Mark a step. Divide. Contain. Carry from one place to another. Create. A plan, a landscape, a spectrum, a call.

'Channelling' connects the medium of audio with other realms. Logistics, infrastructure, landscape transformation. As a practice, channelling takes many forms: tapping into otherwise unheard voices, an invocation, a form of transmission. In this online collective exhibition, three artists explore channelling through sound.

Curated by Andrea González, with works by Laia Estruch, Anahit, and Ainhoa Hernández Escudero.

'Confirmers of the Present', 8min 41s
'RX_004_Tr1_Stereo to master' 5min 3s

In these sound works, Anahit engages with two conflicting notions of channelling. The first refers to a contemporary need for hyper-presence in our synchronous society: an ever-flowing stream of sensory experiences generated by relentless synchronisations, where one sensation swiftly displaces another, leaving scant opportunity for any to fully blossom. The other recalls the primordial experience of being in time: attunement to natural cycles, the eternal flows of water channels, the ominous tolling of melting.

To capture this last aspect, Anahit made field recordings in Argentine Patagonia – suspended over crevasses, capturing micro-rivers of runoff from the Perito Moreno glacier. The resulting piece ‘Confirmers of the Present’ prompts the listener to immerse themselves fully in a single, uninterrupted soundscape. Against these beckoning drips, the channelling impulse of the synchronous society calls: the first part of the piece is an algorithmic composition, made up of data sonifications from the logs of continuous software updates on Anahit’s phone. These channels flow into one another: the inexorable ebb of water against the deluge of global data generated in our hyperconnected society.

Channelling. Be a vehicle. A path. A hole. Go. Let go. Make way for something to happen. Something, the other. Be others. Guide. Make room and draw a line. Mark a step. Divide. Contain. Carry from one place to another. Create. A plan, a landscape, a spectrum, a call.

'Channelling' connects the medium of audio with other realms. Logistics, infrastructure, landscape transformation. As a practice, channelling takes many forms: tapping into otherwise unheard voices, an invocation, a form of transmission. In this online collective exhibition, three artists explore channelling through sound.

Curated by Andrea González, with works by Laia Estruch, Anahit, and Ainhoa Hernández Escudero.

Channelling 1: Laia Estruch
31 October 19.00
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Reflexiones Impro Plato, 22 julio, 2022, 20 min 43s
Reflexiones Copicat, 22 julio, 2022, 10 min 32s

The voice and the body are the elements that structure Laia Estruch's research, an artistic practice situated between sculpture and performance. Laia Estruch conceives of the voice as a sculptural medium, a vehicle with the power to synthesise and render audible. Her projects delve into the emotional potential of a capella and the untheatrical body, exploring the performative nature of language, sound recording, and its oral archive.

Laia presents two pieces in which her voice voices: multiplies again into other voices through matter.

In "Reflexiones Impro Plato," July 22, 2022, Laia reverberates her voice with a cymbal. Crouched beneath the cymbal, the improvised voice bounces and resonates. In "Reflexiones Copicat," July 22, 2022, she manipulates the recording while she records, creating loops and feedback.

Alec Mateo, our artist in residency during the spring of 2023 presents a 30 min audio piece as the outcome of this period.

"Part of a perpetual negotiation with narrative, the 3rd or maybe 4th installment in the Gotchu performance series, this time recorded.
For have thoughts on movement in transit to London. Anthony speaks to Abuelito. You watch lectures and cartoons, reminiscing. Your favorite part is in the middle. The story is ultimately about the stupor of sobriety, discipline, and adventure. These ideas are more complete in their text. One is the refuse of the other. Collage! ;)"

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For this year's Valentines day, we "literally" bring back from the dead the fourth episode of Elif Satanaya Özbay's and Andrea González Garrán's beloved "Vampires Can't Have Anything". 

In this episode "To Love Forever", they discuss the theme of Love, The Eternal Love, the Vampire Love refering to Film, Literature and other mediums of cultural . They will cover some iconic relationships, triangles, and lustful obsessions of and for their beloved creature of the dark, for half an hour.

For all the other Episodes of the latest season, check out website www.jajajaneeneenee.com