PROGRAMME FRIDAY THE 2ND OF OCTOBER, 2020
THÉÂTRE DE LA CRIÉE, MARSEILLE THEN ONLINE FROM OCTOBER 3

What is inscribed and stored in the sea? Are there sounds, languages, voices and stories that we can extract from it? How can we learn to listen to them? This day at Théâtre de la Criée, under the umbrella of “sound”, follows the idea to listen and learn from artists and scientists whose practises focus on recording, listening, analysing, discussing and giving visibility and voice to the sea and its organisms.

18.00 – 19.20: Screenings:

• Lena Maria Thüring, Gardien de la paix (GPX), 2011, 18 min 47 sec
• Ursula Biemann, Acoustic Ocean, 2018, 18 min
• Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Te Moana – The Ocean, 2019–20, 30 min, commissioned by TBA21–Academy

 

PAUSE 19.30 – 21.00 : Presentation and Round Table Talk

SONARS – an experiment in long-term artistic and scientific residency Laurent Chauvaud and Gwenn Potard
The underwater universe is not a silent world… and all that can be heard there has a great deal to tell. From communication between crustaceans to the sound of flow beneath ice fields – a sign of glacial melt – the present research focuses on this sonant aspect of marine ecosystems. These sound landscapes appeal also to artists. La Carène and the BeBEST laboratory have established SONARS, an artistic residency at the heart of their ecological research into underwater sounds. The presentation is followed by a discussion with Lena Maria Thüring, Julie Semoroz and Thierry Perez.

 

21.15 – 22.15 – Sound performances / Concerts :

• Tomoko Sauvage, Waterbowls, sound performance, 40 min
• Julie Semoroz, BALEINA, sound performance, ca. 35 min

 

FROM THE 3RD OF OCTOBER TO THE 31TH OF OCTOBER.

EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE ON ISTITUTOSVIZZERO.IT AND OCEAN-ARCHIVE.ORG

Once a shimmering blue projection screen for holiday dreams, the Mediterranean Sea is now a symbol of migration movements and the hopes of so many people. On a political level, today it is not only one of the deadliest border regions in the world, but also an accelerant of xenophobic zeal. In view of these shifts, it is of vital importance to seek and include other, polyphonic stories and diverse, also non-European perspectives, and to ask with just as much urgency whether and how these voices are being heard and where the memories attached to them are preserved. On this second evening dedicated to ‘storytelling’, we search for these voices and listen to the stories that crossed the sea.
The invited artists Binta Diaw, Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo and Dagmawi Yimer present new and existing works that approach the topic from different perspectives. On the one hand, they shed light on the changing violence of exclusionary policies in the Mediterranean over the past 15 years. On the other hand, they also broaden the view to the migration movements between Italy and Switzerland as well as to the border regimes and the hidden counter-memories that accompany them, or to the polyphony of a young generation of afro-Italians.

Introductory texts by Gioia Dal Molin and Simone Frangi.

Films :

• Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo, Sudeuropa, 2005–2007, 40 min
• Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo, Appunti del passaggio, 2014–2016, 43 min
• Dagmawi Yimer, ASMAT – Names in memory of all victims of the sea, 2015, 17 min
• Dagmawi Yimer, Nothing but the sea, 2011, 49 min

Audio piece by Binta Diaw

 

 

Curated by Claire Hoffmann, Chus Martínez and Gioia Dal Molin, assisted by María Montero Sierra.
A proposal by the Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, Institut Kunst – HGK FHNW, Bâle, Basel, TBA21–Academy and Istituto Svizzero, Rome, in collaboration with the La Criée – Théâtre national de Marseille