« ABA's Air SALON » air salon: Il répond

An hour-long program that attempts to sketch a glimmer of the spiritual and creative life I encountered when living in Lubumbashi, Congo last year. This is done trough field recordings, music I discovered and listened to, some writing, and interviews with some of the people from my environment. The central question in these interviews “Comment tu prie?” arose from my own realisation that I did not know how to pray, a fundamental activity in Congolese life. The richness of the answers I got is incredible. The second half of the program is without talking and consists solely of music, slam poetry and performance by artists I encountered in Lubumbashi.
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.