An Open Space presented at SPOR Festival 2023 Open Spaces are productions that directly engage the audience in the creative process. Local communities new to music work with a curating team to create a musical work that may be presented at a partner’s music festival. Although a quality artistic result is a goal, the priority […]
A performance by Arshia Fatima Haq (IND/USA) Sama: The Divine Listening Room is an experimental audio/visual performance. It aims to convey a sense of both our past and our future. Sama takes the form of a call and response between Arshia Fatima Haq and Yara Mekawei, and video work by Anum Awan and Amy Alexander. […]
World premiere at SPOR Festival Eva Reiter and Karin Harrasser’s Eupepsia/Dyspepsia is a sound museum. It depicts the history of 18th century Bolivia, and the violent effects of its colonisation by Spain. Through a large-scale work envisioned as part-conference, part-performance, Reiter documents the Indigenous music of the country, and the way it travelled to Europe […]
10 years after the mockumentary-work ’The Documentation About Apu Sakar’ in which Christian Winther Christensen agreed to eat an Indian man after his death, the cast behind it wants to further explore the idea of cannibalism as respectful cultural exchange. The result is Eating a Man, premiering at SPOR Festival 2021. Composer Christian Winther Christensen […]
