These annual 2-day gatherings take place in a different European city each year. Bringing together invited experts, composers, musicians, writers, academics, curators from other arts and the general public, they represent an opportunity to rethink and expand the notion of music curating through the lens of diversity.
Fluid Formations brings artists, researchers, practitioners and audience members together in a free two-day gathering of communal listening and thinking. Invited artists engage with the multispecies ecologies we are part of, and the histories that continue to resonate with and affect us today. The programme asks how to listen to our environment against the background […]
A durational performance or a live radio show? A performative symposium or a public forum? The experimental project “Radio (non-)Conference” is coming to Stegi.Radio, where artists, thinkers, and activists are sharing sonic and body-based practices around themes of migration, counter-memory, feminist perspectives, and movements of resistance. “Radio (non-)Conference” is an experimental format at the intersection […]
When does curating ‘malfunction’, or not work as it should, and to what extent should curators interact with works and materials from outside their own field of knowledge? Treading on the opaque borders of curatorial copyright, the symposium Glitch Curation seeks to decipher the current discourses and frontiers of new music curation, exploring its moral, […]
Friday 22 September and Saturday 23 September 2023, 9.30-17.00 Curating Voices of Otherness: Women, non-binary, and transgender persons’ creative resilience in a world of wars, crises, and political turmoil Register here by September 7 Wars, conflicts, and various crises are never gender-neutral because they affect the whole of society, which is itself not gender-neutral. Those crises, […]
What Does Freedom Sound Like? Curating Diversity, Part 26–7 May 2021, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. CETFree, online (registration required) Continuing and building on the Curating Diversity symposium in September 2020, this 2-day event invites participants to explore the sounds of freedom that are continuously being created in our world – beyond Eurocentric power structures and […]
Co-organized by the Akademie der Künste, inm – initiative neue musik berlin e.V. / field notes, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival as part of the Sounds Now project The “Curating Diversity in Europe” symposium provides a platform for keeping the discourse on diversity in contemporary music in Europe alive, developing potentials for transformation during a […]
September 25, 2020, 10.30 a.m. to 8 p.m. CET Co-hosted by the Akademie der Künste, inm-berlin and Ultima in Berlin, Germany The livestream can be freely viewed on this website, as well as in the following places: YouTube – Akademie der Künste Facebook – Initiative Neue Musik Berlin About the symposium The symposium “Curating Diversity […]
