A sound essay in four chapters, produced with the support of Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM Karlsruhe as winner of the HASH Award 2020. Developed by Berrak Nil Boya. “TIDES, or an inevitable unfolding” stages an imagined conversation between Gloria Anzaldúa and Édouard Glissant on borders, language, citizenship, belonging, and what it means to understand […]
Composition and live performance for modular synthesizer and recorded voice. Constructed with and through the voice of death metal singer Fernanda Lira (Crypta). Originally commissioned by Festival Novas Frequências (Brazil) and Taking Things Apart (Germany) with dramaturgy by Giuliana Corsi. Length: ca. 40 minutes. A sonic exploration on the afterlives of colonialism and the violence […]
is an essay for the 4th issue of DING Magazine “Correspondences from the Edges,” on how the European border listens to the (migrant) body, the implications of these listenings in shaping understandings of what the “human” can be, and how these understandings can be turned upside down.
Binaural sound essay, developed for Akademie Solitude/ZKM as part of their Web Residencies program. Awarded with a production grant at the HASH AWARD 2020 conceded by ZKM/Akademie Solitude on February 21st, 2020. All sounds recorded at EMS Stockholm between June and September 2019. Listen to the sound essay: http://meaninglesstexture.schloss-post.com A longer interview about the project […]
is an essay for the Transmediale Journal, in which I discuss “how the trivial and the familiar can be weaponized in order to trigger emotions, evoke dialects, and ultimately decide upon the course of lives.”
is a conversation with Marija Bozinovska Jones, Lou Cornum, Daphne Dragona, Maya Indira Ganesh, Tung-Hui Hu, Fernanda Monteiro, Nadège, Pedro Oliveira, and Femke Snelting. Published in the online journal of the Transmediale 2019 in the context of the Study Circle “Affective Infrastructures.”
Performance and Radio piece, commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur and CTM. Presented live at HAU2 Berlin on January 30, 2019, as part of CTM Festival. Broadcast on 31st of May 2019. Length: 41:12 A Series of Gaps Rather Than a Presence is a tale about home, a story of returning, or, if you are so inclined, […]
Acapella performance for a trio of migrant voices. Commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Brussels and presented live in Belgium on April 14,2018. Duration: ca. 10 minutes. The ubiquitous phrase “Quelque chose de suspect?” seen in airports and train stations in French-speaking Europe is an example of how biometry is a performative everyday gesture, constantly enacted through […]
Three-channel sound installation. Digital Scores 20x30cm, series of three. Commissioned by Karma Ltd. Extended and installed at ACUD gallery’s courtyard in Berlin, February–March 2018. Length: 14 minutes. The sound piece unfolds the story of Franco A., a neonazi German soldier who managed to trick the asylum seeker system in Germany and pass as a Syrian […]