VOICINGS

an exerpt from a poem: Communism is your heaven – Darwin, Duchamp, and Gerhard, too. In the name of heavenly communism, you must scribble your name on paper a thousand times. Tiananmen, who said you were more valuable than Tibet? Maybe, Hai Zi† died for this and became India under the wheels. (translated from Russian by Olga Mexina) full poem in english, kazakh, and russian can be found here https...

If you are not rain, my dear Be tree Sated with fertility, be tree And If you are not tree, my dear Be stone Saturated with humidity, be stone And If you are not stone, my dear Be moon In the dream of your beloved one, be moon [So spoke a woman to her son at his funeral] Excerpt from Mahmoud Darwish - "A State of Siege" READ MORE https://www.arabworldbooks.com/en/e-zine/a-state-of-siege

A long-distance, sonic correspondence between artist Dora Garcia and researcher Maria Rosa Sossai through the words of Alexandra Kollontai and Daniela Attanasio, between Spanish and Italian. Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who was appointed commissar of social welfare after the October Revolution and later one of the world’s first woman ambassadors. She fought for abortion rights,...

RADIO BRUTAL nasce come proseguimento radiofonico-visivo di MANIFESTO BRUTAL. Ricerca balbettante, viaggio poetico-sonoro attraverso le parole di tante e tanti. In questa traccia inveisce e si nutre tra e con Brecht, Pasolini, Nina Cassian, Vivian Lamarque, Antonia Pozzi... CHE MONDO IN DESERTO GIORNO IN SOGNO MUTA: http://bit.ly/manifestobrutal

Built from an unwieldy conversation about cancerous embodiments, "Transit in the House of Cancer" is a breathing exchange between the curator Camila Marambio and the ecologist Bárbara Saavedra – who for years have worked together as part of Ensayos, a nomadic research program based in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Their house is shaped by interruption, solitude, fear, context, ecology, love, death, aut...

George Caffentzis reads Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" Part II, evoking through the figure of Moloch the ravages of capitalism, the military industrial complex and corporate state power. Recorded by Jesal Kapadia

This poem of hope, solidarity and togetherness was shared by Silvia Federici during the Assembling of January 3, 2021 - a collectively constructed "ceremony" welcoming the new year hosted on zoom by 16 Beaver Group and friends. TESTING ASSEMBLING http://centreparrhesia.org/assembling/

“Je suis une voix off” assumes an agency and embodiment of what is absent, playing on various metamorphoses of a voice recorded on a dictaphone. Interrogating different modalities of presentation, enunciation and knowledge transmission, language becomes material trace as the voice is switched "on" while sliding “off” through gaps, mechanical pauses, rewinds, corrections, stammerings, pitchshifts,...

Mick Taussig reads "In the Beginning was the Firefly!" from his recent book "Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown"... as a good omen for Firefly Frequencies! More info about "Mastery of Non-Mastery": https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo46980359.html

* Read by Sara Naili (To our homes in our absence after war and abandonment) Sadness is visiting the ruins of your house in dreams and coming back without dust on your hands. Delicacy is watering the wilted flowers in your neighbour’s garden because yours have perished under the bombs. Distance is the geography of domination that separates cities a thousand miles apart. In one you leave your laund...

* Read by Fateh Hamdan If you go down that road, at the city's edge, the one that leads to the refugee camp, if you run into a bunch of kids at the gate of that school that looks like a prison, if you come across seven who stare at the threshold of silence, if you see a lithe little boy with eyes that spark with the intelligence of the entire world, you can be sure you've found my friend Taysir. H...