A SYMPHONY OF ARCHIVES

Suitable for all who like to sit and listen collectively for 30 minutes.

9 p. m. – Introduction

Abdellah M. Hassak: «A Symphony of Archives» (2022)
World premiere

Abdellah M. Hassak – concept & composition
Zaira Oram – curation

The contribution by the Moroccan artist Abdellah M. Hassak was curated by Zaira Oram from the encounter with OTO SOUND MUSEUM – a nomadic space that produces, presents, and collects sound works by contemporary artists and transforms itself along the way. With an investigative and experimental approach, the artist explores the audiovisual archives, journals, and sounds of certain territories in order to reactivate their memory and re-read them in the context of colonial actions to which they were subjected. The performance is an invitation for visitors to a suspended listening that simultaneously questions the meaning of a process of rewriting and practices of de-colonisation.

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26. November 2022, morning time

Prior to the performance, the artist will conduct a participatory workshop at Kulturhaus Villa Sträuli in Winterthur. For more information write to info@oto.museum.