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Golnar Tabibzadeh's artistic work as part of our Lockdown Residency represents a healing and pictorial act of self-care - addressing claustrophobic feelings through painting. "Like an ancient seed, it envelops me with slowness. It creeps its long, stretchy hands around my skin, warm and moist and still. I hear the sound of droplets from far below as the tears of all my years soak my sky-high feet. Each drop, an echo: most alone in the company of others. Like an ancient seed, it plants me in a patch of slowness. And waits patiently for my sorrow to burst forth."  - Golnar Tabibzadeh Golnar Tabibzadeh is a Berlin-based visual artist, storyteller, art coach and visual researcher. Having graduated with a BA in visual arts from Tehran Azad University of Arts and Architecture in 2005, Tabibzadeh started her artistic career majorly focusing on painting as the main embodiment of her works. Tabibzadeh’s paintings are dissections of her surrounding. A reflection of real-life matters and character stripped from their exterior persona and social skin to expose a coral substantial and rather raw nature. In her works, Tabibzadeh claims that underneath the regulated integrated qualities of our social norms, there lays a collective desire towards untamed intuitive and rough human qualities that is shared without exposure. In her more recent and ongoing projects, Tabibzadeh expands the content of her artworks beyond private real-life narratives with a critical eye towards social issues such as womanhood, displacement and trauma. These projects are research-based visual documentation and archiving of stories of individuals who have experienced trauma in the contemporary era. Host: Khadija Alamin Guest: Golnar Tabibzadeh Post-production: Marieke Helmke Music: Nathan Bernier Produced by: www.oyoun.de IG/FB: @oyounberlin

In this OyoUniverse episode, we talked to Asmaa Sbou about a world without discrimination, the Lockdown Residency, about strengthening the mind and practicing letting go, as well as about meditation social impact of the art and not holding onto anything. "For me, self-care means confronting yourself with stillness, meditating, and letting your thoughts wander by. How is my body doing? How am I doing, NOW?  How do I feel right now?" Asmaa is a cultural curator and the founder of Sboutiful, a fashion label celebrating unique, handcrafted, sustainable, and ethical African fashion. She is vital to the cultural scene in Germany. She has started many initiatives and organizations and founded UMOJA!, an intergenerational collective of Black, African and African-diasporic artists working for the empowerment of Black people. Asmaa started to curate projects, as well as being on stage with contemporary dance performances and music. Host: Khadija Alamin (IG: @khadijasound) Guest: Asmaa Sbou (IG: @sboutiful) Post Production: Khadija Alamin (IG: @khadijasound), Nadia Hamdam (IG: @nadzhamzz) Music: Nathan Bernier (@kutnathan) Produced by: www.oyoun.de

"I am (again) at the crossroad between ethical, political, spiritual and aesthetic forms that I have established for my personal and collective key of action in the world. While (again) in this crossroad-place I find it difficult (again) to name myself as “visual artist”, since when I accept this tag, it turns very difficult to be coherent between the diversity of my fronts of action and the ethical, political, spiritual and aesthetic forms that I have established for my personal and collective key of action in the world that puts me (again) at the crossroad." Suelen Calonga  In this podcast episode, Dumama and Suelen explore the anti-racism work forming the core of Suelen Calonga's poetic, audio-visual archival process. Dumama and Suelen have a reflective and heartwarming conversation about the Ancestral Body Noise process over the weeks, getting to know Suelen's candomble roots.  Suelen Calonga's work is situated between audiovisual, performance, and, more recently, is moving towards strategies of artistic research as a poetic method in order to contain both her transmedia autobiographical narrative and the critique of processes and procedures that sustain the colonization of knowledge through arts and social sciences. Brazilian from Contagem, based in Berlin. Suelen's website: suelencalonga.com --- This is part of a series of podcasts for Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ease) - a project lead by Gugulethu ‘Dumama’ Duma for Oyoun's curatorial focus EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES. She is guiding participants through a intercultural healing incubator on biomythography and ancestral reconnection. The focus is on honoring the remnants of ritual through kinaesthetic and vocal intimacy, engaging the power of a collective creativity developed amidst political and social resistance in a time of social distancing. --- Artwork: Duduetsang Lamola (IG: @blk.banaana) Postproduction: Dylan Hunter Chee Greene (IG: @dylangreene_hunterchee)

Sailesh Nadu (IG: @sailesh_n) is a writer, researcher, and performance artist working in the sphere of migration, gender, and education. Their work interrogates the queer body as territory, ancestral knowledge, and building of queer personal narratives as archive. In this OyoUniverse podcast episode, Dumama and Sailesh have a conversation, unravelling thoughts and experiences concerning the Ancestral Body Noise process, Sailesh's tarot practice and the psycho-spiritual exploration of the dream world. "It is in the inbetween that my practice explores what we know to be true and what our imagination tells us otherwise.  Through poetry, film, and performance I explore imaginative histories, presents, and future as reality.  What can be formed in the mind can be as concrete as the fictional histories we are taught in schools. I seek to recreate and reestablish connections with ancestral bodies that are attached by lineage, spirit, and queerness through rituals and storytelling. " - Sailesh Naidu --- This is part of a series of podcasts for Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ease) - a project lead by Gugulethu ‘Dumama’ Duma for Oyoun's curatorial focus EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES. She is guiding participants through a intercultural healing incubator on biomythography and ancestral reconnection. The focus is on honoring the remnants of ritual through kinaesthetic and vocal intimacy, engaging the power of a collective creativity developed amidst political and social resistance in a time of social distancing. --- Artwork: Duduetsang Lamola (IG: @blk.banaana) Postproduction: Dylan Hunter Chee Greene (IG: @dylangreene_hunterchee)

In this episode, we talk to the award-winning and globally acclaimed, antidisciplinary artist Yasmina Alaoui about the relocation from New York to Marrakech, on sourcing local material, on career suicide and upcoming projects. Yasmina Alaoui is of French and Moroccan descent, born in New York in 1977. She studied Fine Arts at the Carousel du Louvre in Paris, and earned a BA in Sculpture from the College of William and Mary. She currently lives in New York city, and exhibits internationally. The underlying themes behind all her works deal directly with her experiences of multicultural upbringing and aims to bridge extremes by embracing opposites: secular and holy, classical and contemporary, order and chaos, repulsion and attraction. She is known to create complex and intricate visual works using a wide variety of techniques, which she combines in an authenticate manner. Yasmina has collaborated with photographer Marco Guerra on the Tales of beauty and 1001 Dreams series, which have been and collected and exhibited internationally since 2003.  Host: Louna bent Abdelmoula Sbou (@louna.sbou) Guest(s): Yasmina Alaoui (https://www.yasminaalaoui.com/) (@yasminaalaoui) Postproduction: Nadia Hamdan, Khadija Alamin Music: Nathan Bernier (@kutnathan) Produced by: www.oyoun.de IG/FB: @oyounberlin

Interdisciplinary artist Indrani Ashe ইন্দ্রাণী (IG: @theshadowarchivist) responds to a world in which transnational histories and hybrid identities have been strategically marginalized and erased, where profit-based algorithms continue the work of colonialism and imperialism, and perception becomes reality. In this OyoUniverse episode, Dumama and Indrani go on a reflexive journey unpacking Indrani's interdisciplinary works: my goddess gave birth to a goddess, yoga without Adriene, and her relationship with ritual, ancestry, and migration.  Indrani was born in North Carolina in the United States, to an Indian mother whose parents fled the state of Bengal after the violent political upheaval of partition, and a father descended from Welsh-English settlers of the Appalachian Mountains. Wresting the narrative from these hegemonical structures, she creates necessary mythologies at the interplay between image, text, and performance: an intersectional feminist shadow archive, which regenerates a damaged past and creates potential realities for the future. > indraniashe.com --- This is part of a series of podcasts for Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ease) - a project lead by Gugulethu ‘Dumama’ Duma for Oyoun's curatorial focus EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES. She is guiding participants through a intercultural healing incubator on biomythography and ancestral reconnection. The focus is on honoring the remnants of ritual through kinaesthetic and vocal intimacy, engaging the power of a collective creativity developed amidst political and social resistance in a time of social distancing. --- Artwork: Duduetsang Lamola (IG: @blk.banaana) Postproduction: Dylan Hunter Chee Greene (IG: @dylangreene_hunterchee)

Natalie Greffel is a Berlin based vocalist, instrumentalist, composer and arranger. After moving to Berlin in 2010, Natalie decided to pursue a music career, and since then has worked with several groups such as Radio Citizen, Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers, Kelvin Sholar, Karl Hector and the Malcouns and Natedal as both a singer, composer, lyricist, and bassist. Natalie is part of the Oyoun  Curators* Lab and one of the artists that took part in our Lockdown Residency. In this OyoUniverse Podcast episode, we talk about her piece created for the residency which represents a caring and challenging act of self-care - speaking honestly with oneself and others. Host: Khadija Alamin (IG: @khadijasound) Guest: Natalie Greffel (IG: @natalie.greffel) Postproduktion: Khadija Alamin (IG: @khadijasound), Nadia Hamdam (IG: @nadzhamzz) Music: Nathan Bernier (@kutnathan)

We introduce to you the second Season of the Ancestral Body Noise Podcast Series on the OyoUniverse Podcast.  Our second episode features self proclaimed pleasure activist and multi-disciplinary somatic practitioner, Yin Cheng Kokott. We go on a deep journey exploring voice and the ancestral symbolism at play as she re-discovers her relationship with voice and voicelessness. Yin shares a tender process and reflection calling her late grandma to her Ancestral Body Noise journey, along with all the sounds she has inherited from her. Explore more of Yin’s work on Yin’s website: https://yinitis.com/ As part of the Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ease) residency, our podcast series seeks to connect with the participants as they share parts of their process leading up to the residency, as well as experiences of the residency.  Artwork by @blk.banaana  Podcast edited: Dylan Greene #OyoUniverse #Podcast #ancestralbodynoise #art #sounds 

Diese Episode von Oyouniverse durfte Lorena Valdenegro als Gästin willkommen. Das Gespräch fängt mit schöner Grüße von Lorena aus Chile nach Berlin an. Sie spricht über die Überschneidung ihrer persönlichen und professionellen Biografien und auch darüber, wie ihre Arbeit von den intimen Erfahrungen von ihr selbst und von den migrantischen Mitfrauen geprägt sind. Lorena Valdenegros Kunst ist, sagt die Künstlerin, immer politisch. Die Arbeit verkörpert die endlosen Kreisen von den miteinander verbundenen Individuen. Lorena Valdenegro ist eine Tänzerin, Schauspielerin und Theaterpädagogin, die Chile und Berlin verbindet. Sie arbeitet mit dem Theater als Medium sowie Instrument, um soziales und kollektives Bewusstsein zu mobilisieren. Dabei engagiert sie sich kritisch mit dem Themen „Frauen“, „Migration“ und „Identität“.  Schaut euch die neue Videoarbeit von Lorena “Zirkel” an, die als Teil der Oyouns Lockdown Residency produziert wurde: LINK (tbc) Ihr könnt Lorena hier erreichen: IG: @aquitheaterberlin FB: @theaterinberlin Webseite: aquitheaterberlin.de E-Mail: [email protected] Moderatorin: Dami Choi Gästin: Lorena Valdenegro  Postproduktion: Nadia Hamdan, Khadija Alamin Musik: Nathan Bernier Produziert von: Oyoun, www.oyoun.de IG/FB: @oyounberlin

'We compose ourselves' with KooCha We introduce to you the second Part of the Ancestral Body Noise Podcast Series on the OyoUniverse Podcast.  In this first episode of Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ease), Dumama and Koocha go on a an exploration of multi-disciplinary performance activist, KooCha’s previous work, which unpacks power, positionality, subconscious internalization and processing of palatability as we carry ancestral memory & create meaningful work as a queer femme artists of colour in Europe.  KooCha also takes us on a sonic research journey of sounds she grew up listening to, sounds that connect her to her grandma and sounds generated as part of the ABN workshop sessions.  As part of the Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ease) residency, our podcast series seeks to connect with the participants as they share parts of their process leading up to the residency, as well as experiences of the residency.  Artwork by @blk.banaana  Podcast edited: Dylan Greene #OyoUniverse #Podcast #ancestralbodynoise #art #sounds 

Childhood in different cultures has shown Nane Kahle infinite possibilities of bodily communication. Since the life in the city has begun, the need to connect to the self has emerged in her. Nane continues to explore the ancient knowledge of nature, remedy and spirit in which her art practices find vivid inspirations. Listen to her experiences of collective healing. Nane Kahle is an artist, curator, healer, and Yogi who works with human bodies, music, and various artistic media. Her works invite and enlarge the spirituality of individuals, while creating a room for an artistic as well as social solidarity with fellow artists. She is one of the curators and presenters of Cult 'Sup'. Follow Nane here: IG: @nanekahlesound FB: @nanekahle Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/nanekahle  YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCL7w5TiabxQP2GeOnlZRhOw Host: Dami Choi Guest: Nane Kahle Post-production: Nadia Hamdan, Khadija Alamin Music: Nathan Bernier --- Produced by: www.oyoun.de IG/FB: @oyounberlin

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley explores the world of podcasts searching for the history of the Caribbean, colonialism and more inspirations for her/their main artistic medium of work, video gaming. As a relative newcomer to the city, Danielle has been working on establishing a Black Trans community while going through the social restrictions under the pandemic. The professional biography of the artist enfolds with their/her history with the video gaming as a tool of artistic-political expression. Danielle intends to challenge the capitalized, conservative and often anti-trans gaming scene and to open up a new genre, “documentary game”. Listen to Danielle about their/her current interests, work on progress and the Self Care Mixtape produced by the collaboration with Adrian Marie Blount. Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a multimedia artist, game producer, animator and performer based in Berlin. Having started as a self-taught animator, she/they is/are now working on developing the Pro Black Pro Trans Archive using multiple interactive media including among others video game, animation as well as performances. Her/Their works bring together the collective Black Trans experiences from which the powerful and vivid narratives of Danielle’s works come about.  You can follow Danielle at: IG: @Ladydangfua Website: www.daniellebrathwaiteshirley.com Host: Dami Choi Guest: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Post-production: Nadia Hamdan, Khadija Alamin Music: Nathan Bernier Produced by: Oyoun, www.oyoun.de IG/FB: @oyounberlin