June 20th 2019, 7pm, @ aquarium am Südblock
Guest Speaker: Maya Bastian
How do we hear (from) each other in displacement? How are voices, songs and sound memories transported through distances? Does exile have a sound?
In our final session for this year, we will explore the soundscapes of exile by considering what sounds and noises can mean under such conditions: how they travel, alter and manifest under mass displacement. Centering the roles of communication media, from telephone lines to radio stations to Viber, we attempt to understand the multiple meanings of modern technology for a stateless people.
This session will also feature a collaboration with the visual artist Elif Kücük: https://castorxpollux.com/
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Sinthujan Varatharajah initiated and conceptualised the series »Dissolving Territories« together with Iris Rajanayagam (director xart splitta). Varatharajah is an essayist, researcher and currently Open City Fellow of the Open Society Foundation and a PhD student in Political Geography (UCL). Sinthujan works and researches the geography of power(lessness) and spatial resistance practices and holds an MSc. in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (LSE).
Maya Bastian is a filmmaker, focusing on short films and documentaries that have screened at festivals around the world. Primarily focusing on social justice issues, her films range from narrative to documentary to experimental. She has spent several years traveling the world as an investigative video journalist, documenting areas of conflict and post-conflict culminating in her latest narrative short film ‘Air Show’, about the effect of the Toronto Air Show on newcomer refugees. She is the recipient of the 2017 Magee TV Diverse Screenwriting Mentorship Award was selected as one of Reelworld Film Festival’s Emerging 20, and has been recently chosen as one of Regent Park Film Festival’s Home Made Visible artists. www.mayabastian.com/
The event will be held in spoken English. The location including the bathroom is wheelchair accessible.
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More information regarding the series: www.xartsplitta.net/en/tamil-perspectives/
»Dissolving Territories« part II is funded by the Regional Centre for Civic Education Berlin.
