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Canan Batur, curator of New Myths: Recordings of the Missing Channel (which ran 22 July 2019 - 1 March 2020), has written a response to the sonic exhibition. Read it now on our website - link in bio!
New Myths: Recordings from the Missing Channel was conceived as a series of soundscapes/sonic think tanks to assess, develop and propose new social languages and methods to understand, and create unlikely relationships between; the systems of representation, the emancipatory aspect of sound and the social constructs of identity. It takes its foundation from the idea that music is a myth, and myths’ ability to suggest – with primal narrative power- the conflicting forces and ideas that lie at the foundation of society.
It included nine episodes by Tabita Rezaire, , , , Harun Morrison (), , and (Precious Okoyomon).

We are incredibly excited (and a little bit emotional) to announce our final exhibition at our project space in Basel:
OCTAVIAL SCAPE by Maïté Chénière (a.k.a. Mighty) opens on 21. March and runs until 18. April 2020.
Please save the date and join us for this last, extra special exhibition.
Maïté Chénière adopts theoretical research, music, performance or video to create hybrid experiences. In their practice, they merge the cultural productions of racialized q***r people, theoretical and popular knowledge to create an emancipatory discourse.
They have presented performances at Un lieu pour respirer, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Théâtre de l'Usine, Cinéma Spoutnik, Geneva; D.A.F. Festival at the reliure, Geneva; Mains d'œuvres, Paris or at the Ateliers Claus, Brussels. Their work has also been presented at the Magical Solutions Congress, Leipzig; in Focale, Nyon; at the Spreechsaal Gallery, Berlin; at Circuits and Curents, Athens; at the Lac, Brussels, among others.
Mighty is an Afro-futurist DJ and founding member of the Archipelagogo club events that promotes the works of q***r people of colour in Geneva. Through music, they travel in time and shed light on stories that have been ignored, in order to create a space of expression and gathering on the dancefloor for a multiplicity of bodies and identities. They've been playing in Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Johannesburg and throughout Switzerland, eclectic sets revolving around House, and Ballroom. @ 1.1

A look back at Alter-PhD, which took place 9. November - 14. December.
See the full documentation online.
It's not an exhibition, it is not a symposium; it is a mapping, a set of relations, not established yet, the relation of research: not to an abstract category or entity, but to artists themselves, their lives and their modes of investigation. And if this relation does not exist, it has to be imagined, fantasised, and exhilarated.
From the perspective of our integrated relational practices in the field of theory, pedagogy and contemporary art, Alter-PhD is eager to convey how collective experience of production of knowledge leads to the creation of common spaces for uncommon knowledge and alternative modes of governance.
In times of intensification of accountability and a decentering of institutional authority, we want to conduct a project where art research is based on relational collaboration and self-organisation by being actively pursued and developed, and using theory in a nonorthodox and non-academic way.
All contributors relate to either textual, contextual, or time and space-based practices. They have conducted research. They have engaged into singular processes of production of knowledge. They have met real problems. They have impacted their field of investigation with their making. They challenge preconceptions, habits, formats, categories, and therefore fall out of usual supporting structures.
Time, in its variability, is here the unit of measurement that decides the agency of our assembly at 1.1. Each contributor comes along with a rhythm, that refers to a different speed of individuation and serves as a vector of encounter.
Alter-PhD was organised by () and (), with works and interventions by , Martin Jakob, Tegegne & Tiphanie Blanc, Salome Schmuki, Laura-Issé Tusevo and
Photos: Gina Folly @ 1.1