« ABA's Air SALON » air salon: Nos plats aigres irritent vos palais

"Nos plats aigres irritent vos palais" is the title of the radio play by Stéphanie Rosianu that brings together different insurgent voices. Ones she wrote and ones she listens to.The title of the play « Nos plats aigres irritent vos palais » (our sour dishes irritate your palates) is a phrase taken from the French version of Bertolt Brecht's play "Antigone". This line, in its french translation, has a double meaning of the word « palais » which means both "der Gaumen, the palate" and "der Palast, the palace". This double layer embodies the will of this piece to create stories that can both irritate the palate and the palace of the privileged ones.The voices of the radio play have that in common that they challenge the system/cis-tem with words. Each of the voices tells stories that reclaim subjectivities different from the one inseminated by patriarchist and colonialist conceptions and other oppressive capitalist rules. Subjectivities who try to not rise above one and others, but connect and join to change the hegemonic euro-centric History into narratives that help us to build another meaning of being together on this planet.

ABA Air SALON is a radio format produced by Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Berlin based artist initiative dealing with the distribution and documentation of forms of collective and experimental knowledge production. The broadcasts come from different locations in Berlin where we organize salons. At these salons we meet with local actors, artists, scientists and other cultural producers to exchange around research based artistic projects and practices. You can find more information about our program at www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de

ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) e.V., is a research-oriented artists' initiative founded in Berlin in 2009 by the artists Susanne Kriemann & Aleksander Komarov. The programme focuses on ephemeral artistic research and collective and experimental knowledge production. ABA’s operations consist of the conception, curation and implementation of various presentational formats: The organization of salons in different locations across the city, the release of publications, the stewardship of a residency-program and the maintenance of a website as a central place for documentation and archiving of these forms of ephemeral knowledge production.