6-9 December, live at stegi.radio
MED Futures: Everyday Imaginary is a program consisting of sound pieces, music, field recordings and spoken word with a thematic focus on an imaginary everyday life where discrimination and socially unjust systems are overturned. They draw from sounds of protest, sounds that defy and cross borders, sounds that form a sonic picture of the curators’ / artists’ urban environments, that unearth hidden narratives and local stories that are left out of the mainstream body of History.
Everyday Imaginary is a part of stegi.radio’s series Mediterranean Futures, an ongoing thematic narrative, expressed through both digital and physical events, bringing together musicians, DJs, artists and thinkers from across the Mediterranean.
It focuses on sounds and their potential to challenge longstanding Eurocentric and/or Orientalist worldviews in understanding the Mediterranean cultural palimpsest as, rather, a unique example of the coexistence of different people, languages, religions and sounds that expand to other archipelagic cultures.
This is accomplished by searching for geographical connections and alternative timelines that don’t conform to orthodox understandings but are part of an imaginary, created by the crossing of people, the sounds and their ideas, set in motion from one shore to the other, between established borders.
The series aims to provide an answer to the question of how we can reflect, in terms of sound, the fluidity of the exchanges that have formed the region, bringing the periphery closer to the center and exploring how regional and minority cultures have the potential to infiltrate and bend the mainstream.
This programme is curated by 4 emerging curators who attended the Sounds Now Curating Diversity course, an annual course on curating offered to prospective music curators.
Curators
Anita Cappuccinelli
Cường Minh Bá Phạm
Filippos Raskovic
Nguyễn Quốc Hoàng Anh
Participating Musicians
Hanan Benammar, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Abican, Nino Dava, Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou, Driton Selmani, Martino Corrias, Gaia Aloisi, Carlo Sampaolesi, Kim Dürbeck, Mohammed Chakiri, Miia Laine, Shayma Nader, Thierry Phung, Vincent Yuen Ruiz, Tia Taro