'Beyond 1932' Artist Residencies
Between 2024-2027, Artists in Residence across the fields of sound art, experimental and electroacoustic music will reflect on the sonic and colonial legacy of the 1932 Cairo Congress. Responses can include reflections on music pedagogy, contemporary archival practices, notation and tuning, or multidisciplinary performance practices.
2024 Artist in Residence: Hardi Kurda
What is the role of citizens and local communities in preserving the sound of their region? Who decided what music and sounds are ‘worth’ being archived? And how should we engage with archives as sites of both remembering and forgetting?
As part of the Beyond 1932 residency series, sound artist and composer Hardi Kurda will launch his new project, Archive Khanah. The event is part of Space21 Festival based across Slemani (Kurdistan) and its artist networks in Lebanon, Cyprus and the UK.
The evening will introduce the sound archive’s interactive and community-based approach to recording and archiving forgotten and excluded voices from the 1920s - 1970s in Kurdistan and Iraq by using computer game technology to capture and perform the sounds of the region.
Date: Saturday, 11 May 2024
Location: Cafe OTO, Dalston Kingsland Station, London
Tickets: Free
​7.30-8.30pm: Exhibition of Archival Materials from Slemani
8:45-9:45pm: Collector’s Stories + Performance with the Video Game Technology
10:00-10:30pm: Performing the Archive
