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Artist, researcher, and cultural activist Yazan Khalili presents the lecture about Radio Alhara, but his talk primarily focuses on cultural structures and organisations – institutional and other – how they are built, funded, maintained, managed, etc. Drawing on his role as co-founder of this Palestine-based radio station – and his artistic practice in which he examines institutions as politicised entities – he talks about how digital radio can function as a structure of cultural production. What can radio offer as an infrastructure of connectivity, solidarity, and cultural exchange? Radio Alhara emerged during the covid-19 lockdown as a way of staying connected across physical distance, growing through networks of friendship, trust, and shared labour. These relationships became part of its infrastructure, alongside a collective, non-individualised mode of listening that differs from the algorithmic and data-driven structures of social media. The concept of ‘communal media’ emerges from this position between conventional radio and social media, proposing digital media rooted in collective presence and shared infrastructures. The Sonic Liberation Front further demonstrates the potential of digital radio as an alternative network of connection, with stations around the world mirroring broadcasts from Palestine. - Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists. The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH. → Continue reading at 2026.sonicacts.com This podcast is produced by Sonic Acts and realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ex Aqua is a live improvisational performance by theorist and poet Ayesha Hameed and musician Aimée Theriot. Their piece invites the audience into what Palestinian artist Bint Mbareh calls ‘aggressive listening’, exploring the concept of ‘exaqua’ – a term coined by poet M. NourbeSe Philip in Zong! to describe a watery equivalent of exhumation, or the act of reclaiming from the earth. Through poetry and sound, this reclamation process splinters and disperses, bearing witness to destruction on scales ranging from genocide to intimate grief and loss. Working with voice, sound, and improvisation, Hameed and Theriot create a space in which fragments of language and sound surface, overlap, and dissolve. Hameed’s engagement with water, displacement, memory, and the legacies of slavery meets Theriot’s practice of treating sound as a vibrational and sculptural medium. Together, they explore listening as a way of attending to what has been submerged, dispersed, or lost, allowing grief and remembrance to emerge through the unstable materiality of sound. Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists. The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH. → Continue reading about the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 at 2026.sonicacts.com This video is produced by Sonic Acts and realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drawing from his forthcoming text Notes on the Third Ear (to be published by Urbanomic in 2026), musician, artist, and theorist Steve Goodman (Kode9) updates latent themes from his influential book Sonic Warfare to reflect on the politics of vibration within, poised upon, and beyond thresholds of audibility. From sonic booms and drone warfare to acoustic detection and machine listening, Goodman traces an evolving ‘sonic ecology of fear’ in which sound becomes entangled with anticipation, prediction, and pre-emption. Moving between warfare, sound art, and technological listening, Goodman considers how the effects of sound extend beyond the initial event, shaping bodies, environments, memory, and perception. He examines how sounds can become atmospheres, how technological ears increasingly detect and anticipate threats, and how artists have sought to appropriate and transform the sounds of conflict. The lecture concludes with the ‘third ear’: a mode of listening that extends beyond conventional hearing into memory, anticipation, bodily sensation, and technological forms of sensing, asking whether, in an era of planetary machine listening, there is still a third ear – or whether we are already ‘all ears’. - Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists. The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH. → Continue reading about the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 at 2026.sonicacts.com This podcast is produced by Sonic Acts and realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In her performative lecture Deep Time Soundings, researcher, curator, artist, and educator Margarida Mendes traces the rapidly changing ecology of Portugal’s Tagus River – a landscape marked by pollution, dam control, and eucalyptus monocultures that alter the river’s hydrology and desiccate surrounding lands. Developed with the Natural Contract Lab and in consultation with ProTejo, her research follows activists who monitor the river around Vila Velha de Rodão, an epicentre of environmental crime. Through field recordings, voice, and testimonies from river guardians, Mendes creates a multisensory account of an ecosystem in deep transformation, offering a study of environmental mourning and the fragile ties between landscape and community. Moving between geological deep time and the rhythms of rivers, bodies, and other forms of life, Mendes considers how ecological loss becomes inscribed in bodies and landscapes. The changing flow of the river, the disappearance of species, and the memories of local communities become forms of environmental evidence, raising questions about how we record change, sense extinction, and listen for what is absent as well as what remains. - Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists. The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH. → Continue reading about the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 at 2026.sonicacts.com This podcast is produced by Sonic Acts and realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 Symposium Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 28 February 2026 Writer and theorist Flavia Dzodan presents Affective Logistics, a research project examining how computational infrastructures precondition, capture, and route emotion as logistical matter. Tracing genealogies from military command systems and Taylorist models of efficiency to domestic technologies of optimisation, she reveals how contemporary architectures turn affect into data for circulation and control. Through writing, video, and sound, Dzodan treats latency as a signal of deferred presence that speaks to diasporic experience and to forms of feeling that cannot be fully measured or contained. In Affective Logistics, Dzodan explores how infrastructures not only register emotion, but increasingly shape and anticipate it. From Cold War military interfaces to the like button, AI companions, and domestic spaces, she traces how systems designed for efficiency and frictionless interaction turn affect into something that can be measured, classified, and routed. Against this drive towards seamlessness, Dzodan turns to latency – delay, drift, and deferred presence – as a way of making room for ambiguity and forms of feeling that cannot be easily measured or contained. These interruptions connect the technical experience of delayed signals to longing, mourning, and diasporic experience. - Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists. The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH. → Continue reading about the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 at 2026.sonicacts.com This podcast is produced by Sonic Acts and realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 Symposium Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1 March 2026 How can we understand speech and sound as situated? And how might we speak, write, and listen across our mother tongues? In her talk, pantea (Pantea Armanfar) shares a process of developing Maram-Nameh – an evolving, multilingual guide and living archive that partially traces silences across histories and geographies, engaging endangered and suppressed languages and the fragile worlds they hold. Through fragments, words, and collective storytelling, the work explores how sound carries memory, loss, and cultural persistence, inviting restoration as resonance rather than reconstruction. An inquiry into relation, care, and ethical attunement, Maram-Nameh was partly developed in February 2026 during The Walls Have Ears, a sound studies writing residency organised by Sonic Acts and De Ateliers/Woonhuis in Amsterdam. It is a living written-and-sonic work that is being developed within Khamoosh – a collective archiving Iranian sonic heritage through everyday sounds. pantea is a cultural worker, artist, and writer from Iran whose practice explores how sound translates ecological connection, collaborative survival, and the unheard. Her work spans listening, walking, writing, cooking, and making – gestures that nurture relationships and forms of hospitality. - Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists. The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH. → Continue reading at 2026.sonicacts.com This podcast is produced by Sonic Acts and realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 Symposium Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 28 February 2026 In the performance lecture Politics and Desire, Violence and a Governance of Love, Salomé Voegelin asks whether love and political leadership can coexist, or whether political desire is always drawn toward violence and control. Taking the rise of contemporary authoritarian figures as a starting point, she questions why firm and unambiguous leadership feels so persuasive, and whether this desire inevitably pulls us towards ‘voluntary servitude’ and, ultimately, fascism. Drawing on the work of bell hooks, Hannah Arendt, David Graeber, and others, Voegelin considers how desire might be understood not as a force driven by lack and competition, but as a relational flow between bodies, communities, and the world. Through readings and sound, Voegelin stages ideas and their counters, testing whether a sonic sensibility – attentive, relational, and fluid – might shift political desire away from domination and separation, towards forms of leadership grounded in relation. Against the desire for authoritarian certainty and political servitude, Voegelin proposes a sonorous politics of love: one grounded in reciprocity, incompleteness, and the possibility of imagining new forms of collective life. - Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists. The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH. → Continue reading at 2026.sonicacts.com This podcast is produced by Sonic Acts and realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the lecture Sonic Acts for the End of the World, theorist and writer Eleni Ikoniadou confronts a world in which state authoritarianism, fascist policing, ecological devastation, and live-streamed genocide have become normalised and legitimised as governing principles. Faced with forms of violence that are not only enacted but also mediated, aestheticised, and absorbed into the systems of power that produce them, art’s political promise to generate counter-narratives appears increasingly exhausted. For nearly three decades, fiction, speculation, and sonic thought and practice have been pursued for their potential to escape Western anthropocentric frameworks and (re)imagine cosmic kinships and futures beyond colonial spacetime. But what happens to these possibilities when the liberal arts and academic institutions that sustain them are themselves exposed as instruments of capitalist violence? Drawing from sonic theory, Black radical thought, and Indigenous and Afro-diasporic perspectives, Ikoniadou insists that the aesthetic act – to paraphrase Toni Morrison – must become dangerous again. In doing so, she challenges philosophical abstraction and the art world’s ability to absorb dissent, turn it into style, and ensure that nothing really changes. At stake is a more radical proposition: that the world shaped by colonialism, capitalism, and Western modernity must not simply be reimagined, but brought to an end, making space for other temporalities, lifeworlds, and modes of existence already operating beyond its terms. - Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists. The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH. → Continue reading at 2026.sonicacts.com This podcast is produced by Sonic Acts and realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listening Hymns: Sonic Antifascism by ILYICH (Anton Kats) is a performative spoken-word archive. The project is the residue of the artist's multi-year research exploring sound and listening as generative practices within the research trajectory of Sonic Antifascism, and asks: how can sonic practice articulate antifascist cultural work? Tracing ways of listening through the words of artists, musicians, poets, writers, cultural practitioners, meditators and activists, among others, the ever-growing selection of voices follows listening as both a performative and a sonic practice. The archive draws on themes of anti-racism and intersectional feminism, sonic and somatic practices, critical theory and abolitionism, spirit and ritual, allyship, community building, education, sound studies and politics. - Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 was a citywide arts manifestation taking place from 5 February to 29 March across 23 locations in Amsterdam. Titled Melted for Love, the programme was visited by more than 21.000 people and featured cutting-edge performances, contemporary sound experiments, and multidisciplinary art by over 200 international artists. The Symposium, which took place at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on 28 February and 1 March 2026, brought together performances and lectures by Yuk Hui, Flavia Dzodan, Steve Goodman (Kode9), Eleni Ikoniadou, Salomé Voegelin, Ayesha Hameed & Aimée Theriot, Margarida Mendes, Yazan Khalili, pantea, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Busher Kanj, Amr Mdah & Fabio Cervi, and ILYICH. → Continue reading at 2026.sonicacts.com CREDITS Concept, performance, modular synthesis: ILYICH Voices (in order of appearance): James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, Rae Johnson, Dylan Robinson, Vaginal Davis, Paul Kivel, Ligia Lewis and Anton Kats, Busta Rhymes, Sister Tue Nghiem, Col. Bruce Hampton, Candice Hopkins This podcast is produced by Sonic Acts and realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tune in for episodes two and three of Sonic Trax, Sonic Acts' new podcast series, where we explore the organization's rich archive. Join us as we uncover the captivating stories behind the evolution of sound art and its lasting impact, bringing these insights closer to you!  In the two-part podcast Touched by Sound: Re-imagining the Legacy of Michel Waisvisz, hosts Sève I.V. Janssen and Flavien Gillié explore the profound impact of artist, performer, and instrument maker Michel Waisvisz (1949–2008). Through personal archives, interviews with collaborators, and sounds from the Sonic Acts Archive, the duo reimagines the sonic legacy of this key figure in Amsterdam’s experimental music scene and the international arts community (notably as the director of STEIM). Waisvisz was a true trailblazer in technological art, electronic sound art, and performance! From the moment digital technology became available, he constructed experimental instruments and software activated by bodily movements such as The Hands (1984) and Crackle Synth (1974), both pressure-sensitive, touchable devices. This podcast features his sound archives, combining personal reflections from Waisvisz and his close collaborators, testimonials from those inspired by his work today, performance fragments, and radio archives spanning the 1970s to the 2000s. This exploration highlights Waisvisz' transformative approach to turning circuits into instruments of expression and vernacular moments into timeless artworks. In this process, voices, instruments, and the environmental context converge as equals, conducting a conversation where each responds with equal significance. The second episode continues the playful dimension in Michel Waisvisz’s work, questioning how a legacy can shape new generations, through the force of transmission, performance, and education, re-issuing key instruments, ideas or sets up by Waisvisz. The episode features interviews and recordings with collaborators and emerging artists such as Tarek Atoui, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Ji Youn Kang, Julia Giertz, Boris Shershenkov and Görkem Arıkan. Credit: The Sound Archives of Touched by Sound (Part 2) originate from the archives of Michel Waisvisz, with excerpts of interviews with Kristina Andersen, Tarek Atoui, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Ji Youn Kang, Julia Giertz, Boris Shershenkov, with recordings from rehearsals, concerts and workshops as part of Touched by Sound, Sonic Acts Biennial in March 2024.  Artistic development: Sève I.V. Janssen Montage and mix: Flavien Gillié Voiceover: Leon Rogissart Special thanks to Kristina Andersen, Tarek Atoui, Görkem Arıkan, Maud Seuntjens (Sonic Acts) and the participants of the workshop. Sonic Acts Archive projects are supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and Cultuurloket DigitALL. Realised by Paradiso and Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. www.sonicacts.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tune in for episodes two and three of Sonic Trax, Sonic Acts' new podcast series, where we explore the organization's rich archive. Join us as we uncover the captivating stories behind the evolution of sound art and its lasting impact, bringing these insights closer to you!  In the two-part podcast Touched by Sound: Re-imagining the Legacy of Michel Waisvisz, hosts Sève I.V. Janssen and Flavien Gillié explore the profound impact of artist, performer, and instrument maker Michel Waisvisz (1949–2008). Through personal archives, interviews with collaborators, and sounds from the Sonic Acts Archive, the duo reimagines the sonic legacy of this key figure in Amsterdam’s experimental music scene and the international arts community (notably as the director of STEIM). Waisvisz was a true trailblazer in technological art, electronic sound art, and performance! From the moment digital technology became available, he constructed experimental instruments and software activated by bodily movements such as The Hands (1984) and Crackle Synth (1974), both pressure-sensitive, touchable devices. This podcast features his sound archives, combining personal reflections from Waisvisz and his close collaborators, testimonials from those inspired by his work today, performance fragments, and radio archives spanning the 1970s to the 2000s. This exploration highlights Waisvisz' transformative approach to turning circuits into instruments of expression and vernacular moments into timeless artworks. In this process, voices, instruments, and the environmental context converge as equals, conducting a conversation where each responds with equal significance. The first episode centres around Michel Waisvisz as a composer of the present and combines personal recordings with an interview with the artist and researcher Kristina Andersen, the caretaker of his archives today. The episode explores Michel Waisvisz’ distinctive spirit through the textures of his archives, where every crackle and hum becomes a tactile reminder, and Kristina Andersen talks about how materiality can connect generations and offer a sense of continuity, even between those who have never met. Please note:  Some of the archival sounds featured in this episode include Michel Waisvisz speaking in Dutch and French. In the first excerpt (Dutch, >6:40), Michel discusses his practice, describing it as musical theatre, though acknowledging that the term does not fully capture its essence. In the second excerpt (French, >9:15), a reporter and Michel highlight how his electronic music devices generate new, futuristic, and otherworldly sounds. In the final excerpt (Dutch, >15:15), we hear Michel reflecting on an analogy between striving for a climax in music performance and the myth of Tantalus. Credit: The sound archives of Touched by Sound (Part 1) originate from the archives of Michel Waisvisz: Bologna 16-07-1982; Lisboa 14/15-02-1987; Bimhuis Amsterdam solo 08-09-1978; France Culture June 1987; Cologne 24-11-1978; Toklos Zurich 08-2-1986; Hands Houston 13-04-1986; various minidiscs, and excerpts of an interview with Kristina Andersen at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam, conducted on 2 March 2024. Artistic development: Sève I.V. Janssen Editing and mixing: Flavien Gillié Voiceover: Leon Rogissart Sonic Acts Archive projects are supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and Cultuurloket DigitALL. Realised by Paradiso and Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. www.sonicacts.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does it mean to DJ an archive? In the debut instalment of a new podcast series by Sonic Acts, junior curator Hannah Pezzack interviews Ruben Verkuylen (The Social Lover) about his DJ set from the 2024 Biennial, where he reimagined Sonic Acts archival material through turntablist techniques, sample pads, and effects. Recorded live at Het HEM and later broadcast by NTS Radio, his set drew upon a rich array of concerts, lectures, and conversations from 2003 to 2006 – a transformative era for electronic music, computing cultures, and digital art. Discussing his process, Verkuylen reflects on pivotal technological shifts, from the work of early computer art pioneer Lillian Schwartz to the artistic possibilities of AI in the present day. Featuring snippets from his deep dive, the podcast explores what it means to remix archives as a form of collage – reinterpreting and layering history, and connecting to contemporary sound practices. 📖 – Visit our website for the show notes of this episode. Sonic Trax: Remixing the History of Sound Art is a podcast by Sonic Acts exploring the institution's archive, which dates back to the mid-1990s. Examining creative approaches and interventions, the series reveals broader narratives about the lineage of sound art, tracing its evolution and enduring resonance. Sonic Acts Archive projects are supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and Cultuurloket DigitALL, and realised by Paradiso and Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Credit: Recorded at Erik's house, Amsterdam Sound design and editing by Tobias Withers www.sonicacts.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Accompanied by her modular synthesiser, xenologist scholar and artist Adriana Knouf's presentation is proposed as a love letter. Eschewing the binary logic that pervades Western thinking, Knouf argues that all beings – trans*, cis, and xeno – are in a constant process of flux and transformation, always already more-than-human. From syringes of ​oestrogen to the trajectories of satellites orbiting the Earth, she investigates ongoing and future processes of ‘xenomogrifications’ – the becoming of something else. Following her talk, Adriana Knouf also sat down with Hannah Pezzack to talk about everything from Elon Musk and SpaceX, to fungi and making synth parts. Find the interview in the Sonic Acts Podcast series. → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme Credit: Production: Sonic Acts Camera: Engage! TV Intro sound: Jessica Ekomane Intro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser Part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration between Paradiso and Sonic Acts (NL), funded by Creative Europe. www.sonicacts.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Louisiana, artist, activist, writer, and architectural researcher Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers Black antebellum cemeteries – portals to recover and remember Afro-diasporic ecological praxes. Between 1820 and 1865, enslaved people were forced to clear Louisiana’s primordial forests to make way for the expansion of cane. They preserved small sections of forest where their loved ones were interred. These groves are both remnants of the erased bottomland hardwood forest and carefully stewarded microecologies – time capsules of lifeworlds that thrived against all odds in the back-a-plantations. There, enslaved people tended gardens and planted trees; organised dances and rituals; exchanged information and ideas; experimented with temporalities of freedom and plotted revolts. Today, their groves, which have survived generations of racial violence, industrial encroachment, and climate disaster, stand as the frontlines of more-than-human, intergenerational resistance to the continuum of extractivism. 24 Feb 2024 Amsterdam, Netherlands → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at 2024.sonicacts.com Credit: Production: Sonic Acts Camera: Engage! TV Intro sound: Jessica Ekomane Intro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser Realised by Paradiso & Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. www.sonicacts.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following lectures from scholars Astrida Neimanis and M Murphy at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024, both were joined on the Symposium stage by artist Sissel Marie Tonn for a conversation addressing many topics, from pollution and violence, to language, creative methods, and direct action. Guided by questions from the audience, they also address indigenous knowledge and research, discussing how to negotiate one's position within Western science and university systems, as well as direct action methods. 24 Feb 2024 Amsterdam, Netherlands → Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at 2024.sonicacts.com Credit: Production: Sonic Acts Camera: Engage! TV Intro sound: Jessica Ekomane Intro design: Knoth & Renner with Anja Kaiser Realised by Paradiso & Sonic Acts as part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. The visit of Astrida Neimanis was made possible by the International Visitors Programme of the Nieuwe Instituut with support from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. www.sonicacts.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.