OyoUniverse

Talk on the urgency and politics of remembrance and art as a form of healing and trauma reflection

With Dr. Emilia Roig, Maryan Abdulkarim and Jasmina Musić
Moderated by ShaNon Bobinger

In this talk, four extraordinary creatives get together and discuss the many ways in which trauma can be reflected through various forms of art and potentially help ease the (un)conscious pain inherited or experienced.  They will also discuss the inevitability, politics and urgency of remembrance serving ways to mirror society in times of increasing hate crimes, bigotry, racism and intolerance while embracing the need for communities and spaces to heal.

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Podcast edited by : Linda Hamoui

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This talk is part of UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation

UN:IMAGINABLE is one remarkable theatre production resulting from lived realities of trauma, war, segregation and exile. In the 1990s the conflicts in Rwanda and the Balkans shattered the world and remain recorded as two of the bloodiest events in modern history. However, testimonies and stories continue to this day. Many have fled their home country and some have reached Germany, a space glorified as paradise. 

Society is stuck in suppressed fear and hatred leading to further conflicts while in denial of histories untold. UN:IMAGINABLE mirrors the banality of evil and its connection to everyday, mundane life and deals with the hour prior to death in the lives of victims and perpetrators. 

Macht euch bereit für die dritte Folge des Becoming Alman Podcasts, diesmal mit Künstler*in, Dichter*in und Performer*in jô osbórnia (@josbornia)! ✨

In dieser Folge spricht jô über den Versuch via Kunst einen Diskurs über Gender und Kolonialismus zu erzeugen. Aus jô's Position als Transmigrant*in in Europa versucht jô über poetische und performative Sprachen nachzudenken, die ein antikoloniales Denken bzw. eine antikoloniale Haltung innerhalb einer Metropole implizieren könnten.

jô osbórnia schreibt hauptsächlich auf Portugiesisch und Deutsch. 

Moderation und Post-produktion von: Linda Hamoui (@hamam_talk)
Produziert von: www.oyoun.de 

In dieser Folge von Oyouniverse durften wir Künstlerin Elif Çelik in unserem Studio begrüßen. Elif ist eine von vier Künstler:innen des Projekts Becoming Alman, einer performativen Ausstellung, die um das Thema Staatsbürgerschaft kreist. In dieser Folge, gehostet von Linda Hamoui geht es um Identität, Kunst als Politik und Zugehörigkeit. 

Elif Çelik wurde 1997 in Ulm geboren und studiert seit 2016 Freie Kunst an der Kunstakademie Stuttgart. Sie besucht derzeit die Klasse von Alisa Margolis. 

In ihrer Arbeit zeigt sie, wie extrinsische Verhältnisse ihrer sozialen Umgebung den Orientierungsprozess ihrer deutsch-türkischen Identität aus dem Gleichgewicht bringen oder manipulieren. Als eine muslimische Frau versucht sie mit ihrer Malerei einen Diskurs zu öffnen. Sie will die Betrachtenden mit der Tatsache konfrontieren, dass sie und andere Menschen in Deutschland einer ständigen Beobachtung ausgesetzt sind, weil sie nicht zur Norm der Mehrheitsgesellschaft passen.

Host: Linda Hamoui (@hamam_talk)
Gästin: Elif Çelik  (IG: @eelif.cel)
Post-Production: Linda Hamoui (@hamam_talk)
Produced by: www.oyoun.de 

IG/FB: @oyounberlin

Welcome to this new episode of OyoUniverse, the podcast produced by Oyoun! In this episode, we get to welcome Lora Krasteva – cultural producer, activist and lead artist of Becoming Alman – as well as the producer of the project Claire Gilbert. Together, we talk about how Lora found her way into the arts, what it's like to be a migrant artist, criticism and Belonging.

Lora Krasteva is a Bulgarian artist living in Sheffield, UK. Her experiences of migration in six different countries and her recent realizations from applying for British citizenship have led her to this project.
Lora is part of Global Voices Theatre, a theater company dedicated to bringing international theater to the UK by long-excluded creatives. She creates socially engaged theater with professionals and other community members alike. She has worked with Arts & Homelessness International to advocate for a place for creativity in homelessness services. Lora is a member of What Next? and a founding member of Migrants in Theatre, a movement that advocates for better representation of first generation immigrants on and off stage.

Claire Gilbert is an Essex based independent arts producer, who has worked in several international tours and productions for Barbican Centre, Royal Court, the National Theatre and more. She is also a company producer for BEZNA Theatre and has extensive experience working arts of social change.

Guests: Lora Krasteva (IG: @lorakrasteva), Claire Gilbert (IG: @claire.e.gilbert)
Post-Production: Linda Hamoui (@hamam_talk)
Produced by: www.oyoun.de 

Golnar Tabibzadeh's artistic work as part of our Lockdown Residency represents a healing and pictorial act of self-care - addressing claustrophobic feelings through painting.

"Like an ancient seed, it envelops me with slowness. It creeps its long, stretchy hands around my skin, warm and moist and still.
I hear the sound of droplets from far below as the tears of all my years soak my sky-high feet.
Each drop, an echo: most alone in the company of others.
Like an ancient seed, it plants me in a patch of slowness. And waits patiently for my sorrow to burst forth." 
- Golnar Tabibzadeh

Golnar Tabibzadeh is a Berlin-based visual artist, storyteller, art coach and visual researcher. Having graduated with a BA in visual arts from Tehran Azad University of Arts and Architecture in 2005, Tabibzadeh started her artistic career majorly focusing on painting as the main embodiment of her works.
Tabibzadeh’s paintings are dissections of her surrounding. A reflection of real-life matters and character stripped from their exterior persona and social skin to expose a coral substantial and rather raw nature. In her works, Tabibzadeh claims that underneath the regulated integrated qualities of our social norms, there lays a collective desire towards untamed intuitive and rough human qualities that is shared without exposure.
In her more recent and ongoing projects, Tabibzadeh expands the content of her artworks beyond private real-life narratives with a critical eye towards social issues such as womanhood, displacement and trauma. These projects are research-based visual documentation and archiving of stories of individuals who have experienced trauma in the contemporary era.

Host: Khadija Alamin
Guest: Golnar Tabibzadeh
Post-production: Marieke Helmke
Music: Nathan Bernier
Produced by: www.oyoun.de

IG/FB: @oyounberlin

In this OyoUniverse episode, we talked to Asmaa Sbou about a world without discrimination, the Lockdown Residency, about strengthening the mind and practicing letting go, as well as about meditation social impact of the art and not holding onto anything.

"For me, self-care means confronting yourself with stillness, meditating, and letting your thoughts wander by. How is my body doing? How am I doing, NOW?  How do I feel right now?"

Asmaa is a cultural curator and the founder of Sboutiful, a fashion label celebrating unique, handcrafted, sustainable, and ethical African fashion. She is vital to the cultural scene in Germany. She has started many initiatives and organizations and founded UMOJA!, an intergenerational collective of Black, African and African-diasporic artists working for the empowerment of Black people. Asmaa started to curate projects, as well as being on stage with contemporary dance performances and music.

Host: Khadija Alamin (IG: @khadijasound)
Guest: Asmaa Sbou (IG: @sboutiful)
Post Production: Khadija Alamin (IG: @khadijasound), Nadia Hamdam (IG: @nadzhamzz)
Music: Nathan Bernier (@kutnathan)

Produced by: www.oyoun.de

"I am (again) at the crossroad between ethical, political, spiritual and aesthetic forms that I have established for my personal and collective key of action in the world. While (again) in this crossroad-place I find it difficult (again) to name myself as “visual artist”, since when I accept this tag, it turns very difficult to be coherent between the diversity of my fronts of action and the ethical, political, spiritual and aesthetic forms that I have established for my personal and collective key of action in the world that puts me (again) at the crossroad." Suelen Calonga 

In this podcast episode, Dumama and Suelen explore the anti-racism work forming the core of Suelen Calonga's poetic, audio-visual archival process. Dumama and Suelen have a reflective and heartwarming conversation about the Ancestral Body Noise process over the weeks, getting to know Suelen's candomble roots. 

Suelen Calonga's work is situated between audiovisual, performance, and, more recently, is moving towards strategies of artistic research as a poetic method in order to contain both her transmedia autobiographical narrative and the critique of processes and procedures that sustain the colonization of knowledge through arts and social sciences. Brazilian from Contagem, based in Berlin.

Suelen's website: suelencalonga.com

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This is part of a series of podcasts for Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ease) - a project lead by Gugulethu ‘Dumama’ Duma for Oyoun's curatorial focus EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES. She is guiding participants through a intercultural healing incubator on biomythography and ancestral reconnection. The focus is on honoring the remnants of ritual through kinaesthetic and vocal intimacy, engaging the power of a collective creativity developed amidst political and social resistance in a time of social distancing.

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Artwork: Duduetsang Lamola (IG: @blk.banaana)
Postproduction: Dylan Hunter Chee Greene (IG: @dylangreene_hunterchee)

Sailesh Nadu (IG: @sailesh_n) is a writer, researcher, and performance artist working in the sphere of migration, gender, and education. Their work interrogates the queer body as territory, ancestral knowledge, and building of queer personal narratives as archive.

In this OyoUniverse podcast episode, Dumama and Sailesh have a conversation, unravelling thoughts and experiences concerning the Ancestral Body Noise process, Sailesh's tarot practice and the psycho-spiritual exploration of the dream world.

"It is in the inbetween that my practice explores what we know to be true and what our imagination tells us otherwise.  Through poetry, film, and performance I explore imaginative histories, presents, and future as reality.  What can be formed in the mind can be as concrete as the fictional histories we are taught in schools. I seek to recreate and reestablish connections with ancestral bodies that are attached by lineage, spirit, and queerness through rituals and storytelling. " - Sailesh Naidu

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This is part of a series of podcasts for Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ease) - a project lead by Gugulethu ‘Dumama’ Duma for Oyoun's curatorial focus EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES. She is guiding participants through a intercultural healing incubator on biomythography and ancestral reconnection. The focus is on honoring the remnants of ritual through kinaesthetic and vocal intimacy, engaging the power of a collective creativity developed amidst political and social resistance in a time of social distancing.

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Artwork: Duduetsang Lamola (IG: @blk.banaana)
Postproduction: Dylan Hunter Chee Greene (IG: @dylangreene_hunterchee)

In this episode, we talk to the award-winning and globally acclaimed, antidisciplinary artist Yasmina Alaoui about the relocation from New York to Marrakech, on sourcing local material, on career suicide and upcoming projects.

Yasmina Alaoui is of French and Moroccan descent, born in New York in 1977. She studied Fine Arts at the Carousel du Louvre in Paris, and earned a BA in Sculpture from the College of William and Mary. She currently lives in New York city, and exhibits internationally.

The underlying themes behind all her works deal directly with her experiences of multicultural upbringing and aims to bridge extremes by embracing opposites: secular and holy, classical and contemporary, order and chaos, repulsion and attraction. She is known to create complex and intricate visual works using a wide variety of techniques, which she combines in an authenticate manner. Yasmina has collaborated with photographer Marco Guerra on the Tales of beauty and 1001 Dreams series, which have been and collected and exhibited internationally since 2003. 

Host: Louna bent Abdelmoula Sbou (@louna.sbou)
Guest(s): Yasmina Alaoui (https://www.yasminaalaoui.com/) (@yasminaalaoui)
Postproduction: Nadia Hamdan, Khadija Alamin
Music: Nathan Bernier (@kutnathan)

Produced by: www.oyoun.de
IG/FB: @oyounberlin

Interdisciplinary artist Indrani Ashe ইন্দ্রাণী (IG: @theshadowarchivist) responds to a world in which transnational histories and hybrid identities have been strategically marginalized and erased, where profit-based algorithms continue the work of colonialism and imperialism, and perception becomes reality.

In this OyoUniverse episode, Dumama and Indrani go on a reflexive journey unpacking Indrani's interdisciplinary works: my goddess gave birth to a goddess, yoga without Adriene, and her relationship with ritual, ancestry, and migration. 

Indrani was born in North Carolina in the United States, to an Indian mother whose parents fled the state of Bengal after the violent political upheaval of partition, and a father descended from Welsh-English settlers of the Appalachian Mountains. Wresting the narrative from these hegemonical structures, she creates necessary mythologies at the interplay between image, text, and performance: an intersectional feminist shadow archive, which regenerates a damaged past and creates potential realities for the future. > indraniashe.com

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This is part of a series of podcasts for Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ease) - a project lead by Gugulethu ‘Dumama’ Duma for Oyoun's curatorial focus EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES. She is guiding participants through a intercultural healing incubator on biomythography and ancestral reconnection. The focus is on honoring the remnants of ritual through kinaesthetic and vocal intimacy, engaging the power of a collective creativity developed amidst political and social resistance in a time of social distancing.

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Artwork: Duduetsang Lamola (IG: @blk.banaana)
Postproduction: Dylan Hunter Chee Greene (IG: @dylangreene_hunterchee)