VOICINGS

As part of VOICINGS, we begin a new series of poetry readings, AROUND A BLUE SUN, equally conceived as sonic experiments. For the first episode, we focus on Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art". Through a radical "versioning" that propels the poem into an experience of its own potential loss, we ask how Bishop's lesson in the art of losing can help prepare us to confront present and future disasters,...

Artist and activist Essi Pellika performs a text she wrote as a process towards her MFA thesis... Here is a short extract: “so-called future” stands on the “Semiotics of The End” fiction as feed-backed into theory the feedback of future into the present exploitation of simulation the haze of theory and the information melting into nothingness warfare melting down into simulation a semiotic war as...

Artist Nabil Himich reads passages from his ongoing diary in dialogue with a splintered body of collected thoughts from authors such as Fathi Elmaskini, Etel Adnan, Dionne Brand, Hakim Bey, Adana Shibli… Thank you so much Nabil! Image: Unsquared, Nabil Himich, 2021

Rafeef Ziadah recites the poem "If I Must Die" by Refaat Alareer who was killed in an airstrike by the Israeli military December 6, 2023, along with his brother, his brother's son, his sister and her three children. This poem written to his daughter in 2011 was published five weeks before his murder.  Collective project SOME STRINGS Filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed SOME STR...

"Siempre" is part of "Unisonoa", a project by Ixiar Rozas which is both a collection of poems made up of a single line and a sound work. These were born and grew at the same time, somewhere on the horizon, and each one follows its own path together with a number of collaborators. A composition between rhythm, line, phrase, movement, undulation, vibration, voice, whisper and affect. Words, voices -...

In the late June early July of 2023, a European regional Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance took place in a very particular place – Arneo, South-East of Italy – a land where peasants struggled for the right of their land since 1950s, being repressed. Now this territory is again at risk. Activists, artists, carpenters, refugees, and bike recycle enthusiast got together under the crowns of a uni...

In the late June early July of 2023, a European regional Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance took place in a very particular place – Arneo, South-East of Italy – a land where peasants struggled for the right of their land since 1950s, being repressed. Now this territory is again at risk. Activists, artists, carpenters, refugees, and bike recycle enthusiast got together under the crowns of a uni...

In the late June early July of 2023, a European regional Gathering of the Ecoversities Alliance took place in a very particular place – Arneo, South-East of Italy – a land where peasants struggled for the right of their land since 1950s, being repressed. Now this territory is again at risk. Activists, artists, carpenters, refugees, and bike recycle enthusiast got together under the crowns of a uni...

For English translation please go to https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/speech-of-the-red-indian/ All our solidarity to the Palestinian struggle! Thanks to RADIO ALHARA for the amazing program UNTIL LIBERATION. https://soundcloud.com/radiokara

In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature, English writer, art critic and long-time supporter of Palestine John Berger gave a moving reading of Palestinian writer, Ghassan Kanafani’s “Letter from Gaza”. Kanafani was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in 1972. A warm thank you to Radio Al Hara https://www.radioalhara.net/

In homage to one of the most uncompromising figures in the history of cinema, Jean-Marie Straub, this remix presents an assemblage of film fragments by Huillet/Straub including "Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene", "En Rachachant", "La Guerre d'Algérie", "Kommunisten" and "Noir peché". Merci Jean-Marie and Danièle, you and your films will live with us forever!

A reading of the first part of Etel Adnan's poem SEA, from the book "Sea and Fog". Voice: Graeme Thomson Recording and mix: Silvia Maglioni

"If My Words" by Canadian-Palestinian poet and performer Rafeef Ziadah, from the album "We Teach Life".

Ho sognato Pauline Oliveros. Era dicembre, vicino al mio compleanno. Era lì, con me. Allo stesso tempo da qualche parte. Come terra nella terra. Dentro. Le palme delle mani. Ascolta. Il silenzio un respiro che diventa. Ovunque. La ringrazio. Ti ringrazio Pauline.

Adrian Mitchell from Out Loud, 1968 (translation to Russian by Kirill Medvedev)

Questo testo è il tentativo di trascrivere e fissare attraverso le parole un sogno misterioso che feci durante il periodo di primo lockdown in Italia. Ho trascorso quattro mesi in una casa disabitata e le uniche relazioni che intrattenni erano con gli autori e le autrici dei libri che portai con me. Queste letture influenzarono profondamente il mio immaginario onirico: i sogni che feci in quel per...

An extract from "Experiments in Imagining Otherwise" by Lola Olufemi Voice: Chara Stergiou

La mia vita e cambiata inaspettatamente: da fotografa viaggiatrice sono diventata la custode di un nuovo bosco. Ma cosa ha mosso questo cambiamento di rotta? Leggendo le parole del libro di Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux, "Devenir Vivant" ho trovato la spiegazione... Voice - Viola Berlanda

Orsa maggiore nasce come incontro tra due artisti sonori nel piano della parola poetica. Il pezzo si compone nell’esplorazione della poesia come esperienza di un pronunciare misterioso, del suono di lingue diverse, e della lingua come suono. Il testo condiviso crea il suo spazio tra frammenti di field recording e composizione sonora, entrando nella notte nelle parole dell'Orsa Maggiore di Ingeborg...

Testo visionario onirico a episodi: Marco Polo narra a Kublai Khan, vecchio malinconico le città attraversate nei suoi viaggi. Voice - Cinzia Di Meglio

from "Dreaming Is Common to All" by Emilio Fantin

An excerpt of the Words of the Zapatista Women at the closing ceremony of the Encuentro de las Mujeres en Lucha, from the book "When the Roots start moving: To navigate Backwords/ Resonating with Zapatismo" eds Alessandra Pomarico & Nikolay Oleynikov (Archive Books, 2019). Voice: Alessandra Pomarico

Excerpt from an unfinished essay by Oe, 2006

“And what is an authentic lunatic? He is a man who has preferred to become what is socially understood as mad rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. In its asylums, society has managed to strangle all those it has wished to rid itself of or defend itself from, because they refused to make themselves accomplices to various flagrant dishonesties. For a lunatic is also a man whom...

An episode in memory of Peter Lamborn Wilson/ Hakim Bey, visionary poet and theorist of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, featuring Chaos from the album T.A.Z.