Sonic Acts

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER Ephraim Asili – Mindfulness Cinema – Introduction by Juha van 't Zelfde 23 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Artist and filmmaker Ephraim Asili presents a talk about his cinematic practice to date as well as some ideas that he hopes to resolve in future projects. Themes of his presentation include: jazz methodologies, meditation, African-Am...

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER – Introduction by Emily Pethick The Otolith Group and Annie Fletcher – Eastman is the Matter at Hand24 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands From the late 1960s until his death in 1990 at the age of 49, Julius Eastman, the queer African-American avant-garde composer, pianist, vocalist and conductor, wrote and performed compositions whose ecstat...

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa – Carrying Yours and Standing Between You – Introduction by Emily Pethick 24 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands During her talk, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa will be reflecting on the similarities and differences between the contexts and research processes that led her to produce the 2015 video Promised Lands and Carrying Your...

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER Elizabeth A. Povinelli – After the End, Stubborn Affects and Collective Practices – Introduction by Mirna Belina 24 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands As many in the West look forward to a climate-induced end of times, huge areas of the human and nonhuman world have been struggling to exist in the toxic excrement of late liberal capitalism....

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER Louis Henderson – Dialect of hurricanes. Patois of rains. Language of storms. Unfolding of life in a spiral. – Introduction by Mirna Belina 24 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Unfurling like a fiddlehead fern fond in a forest, the word ‘creole’ comes from the Greek root *ḱer- meaning to grow, to nourish. Celebrating the vast possibilities...

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER Stoffel Debuysere – Fictions of the Real – Introduction by Mirna Belina 24 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands With an introduction by Mirna Belina. What has happened to the cinematic fictions that set out to make sense of our times? That is to say: what has happened to fiction as the construction of both an arrangement of events and a relati...

SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019 – HEREAFTER Filipa César, Jin Mustafa – Meteorisations: Reading Amílcar Cabral's Agro-Poetics of Liberation – Introduction by Mirna Belina 24 February – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands A reading of Amílcar Cabral’s agronomic writings exposes substrata of a syntax for liberation later performed in guerrilla language and the struggle against Portuguese colonialis...