« Nomadic Art » Session #32
As part of her Ph.D. research in anthropology, the artist&researcher Melanie Garland recorded various sounds from the surroundings of her fieldwork sites in Calais-France, Rome-Italy and Antofagasta, Chile. This led her to delve into the method of sound ethnography, particularly focusing on non-human sonics in different urban spaces. In NomadicRadio Session 32, Melanie will present a sound piece composed of oceanic sounds recorded between 2021 and 2022 from the Mediterranean sea (Italy), North sea (France), and Pacific ocean (Chile). This 30-minute piece, blending ambient and underwater sounds, will be featured in her upcoming exhibition and final Ph.D. disputation at the end of October at the main building of Humboldt University in the heart of Berlin.Open to sound artists and to all those who are interested in a new way of recording migratory experiences.
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nomadicArt is a cultural platform offering diverse creative and artistic activities, which aim to help newly arrived citizens to enter the public arena despite legal obstacles restricting their mobility and inclusion in social life. The workshops and events are facilitated by nomadicArt and are co-created by migrants both with a professional artistic background and without. They provide a safe space for exchange and action. Besides, nomadicArt aims to connect and include various stakeholders from society: migrants, refugees, activists, researchers, volunteers and other actors in the close neighborhood.
The activities of nomadicArt address the inhabitants of the adjacent NUK (emergency shelter), the neighborhood of ZK/U Berlin , Gütermarkt in Moabit and ZUsammentKUNFT (Modellprojekt Initiative Haus der Statistik) in Potsdamer Platz. It deliberately stays on a small scale and is continuously evaluated and reconfigured according to the needs of the participants. Next to helping and connecting the local structures, nomadicArt aspires to explore the potentials of artistic work as a transformative tool. The documentation and discourse coming from these activities will be exchanged with other similar groups working in other shelters in the context of the joint working platform ZUsammenKUNFT. ↓
Our group is currently composed of artists, designers, anthropologists, curators and art theorists who live in Berlin.