The New Alphabet
2019—2022
Is it possible to imagine an overabundance of multifarious fields of languages, knowledge production, and learning practices beyond one universal matrix? Can common reference points and collective action be enabled without monopolistic force? How can knowledge be both situated and globally relevant?
Aaron Kamugisha: Sylvia Wynter’s Caribbean Ceremony
English original version Lecture, Dec 2, 2022
Leora Maltz-Leca and Claire Tancons: Conversation
English original version Dec 2, 2022
"Not in front of the children!": Masking Trauma in Minshall’s Mas
Peter Minshall (via video) and Claire Tancons English original version Conversation, Dec 2, 2022
Conversation with Aaron Kamugisha and John Cowley
moderated by Claire Tancons English original version Dec 2, 2022
Stefano Harney, Ronald Rose-Antoinette: Recess and Precess
English original version Lecture Performance, Dec 2, 2022
Demetrius L. Eudell: Toward a Wynterian (Auto)Poetics to Overturn the 'Active Creation' of Chaos
English original version Lecture, Dec 1, 2022
Che Gossett: Black Metamorphosis: Blackness and "Unsovereign" Indigeneity
English original version Lecture, Dec 1, 2022
Calling (on) Wynter: A Few Responses – Welcome & Introduction
with Anselm Franke, Elisa Giuliano, Denise Ryner, Claire Tancons and Zairong Xiang English original version Dec 1, 2022
Conversation with Demetrius L. Eudell, Che Gossett and Jon Solomon
moderated by Denise Ryner and Anselm Franke English original version Dec 1, 2022
Jon Solomon: Wynter Outside and the Defeat of the Left
English original version Lecture, Dec 1, 2022
Barbara Ransby, Yulia Gradskova, Vanessa E. Thompson: 140,000,000 Women Can’t Be Wrong
Moderated by Avery F. Gordon English original version with German simultaneous translation Lecture, conversation, Nov 19, 2022
Barbara Ransby, Yulia Gradskova, Vanessa E. Thompson: 140,000,000 Women Can’t Be Wrong
Moderated by Avery F. Gordon English original version with German simultaneous translation Lecture, conversation, Nov 19, 2022
A Sound Civilization
With Ann Cotten, Lonnie Holley, Duduzile L S Mathonsi, moderated by Natasha A. Kelly English original version Lectures, panel, Nov 13, 2022
Louis Chude-Sokei: At the End of Black Music: Infotech, Biotech, Afrotech
English original version Keynote, Nov 13, 2022
The Sound of Tomorrow
With Heiko Hoffmann, Lisa Rovner English original version Panel, Nov 12, 2022
Chapter 3: Sound is a Matter of the Imagination | Cosmic Awakening
If truth is stranger than fiction, why shouldn’t music be stranger than science fiction? Sounds manipulate space and time, unlock new dimensions and open wormholes in parallel universes. In this respect, sonic fiction does the same as fantasy literature: It distorts the present and creates space for alternative worlds. With quotes from works by J. G. Ballard, Jimmy Carter, Becky Chambers, Kodwo Eshun, Ursula K. Le Guin, Daniel Oberhaus, Sun Ra, Holger Schulze, David Tudor, Whitney Wei.
Chapter 2: How Loud is the Sun? | Cosmic Awakening
In the approach to Jupiter, the sun can be heard singing. But apart from the soundscapes on neighboring planets or in black holes, according to probability theory there is also extraterrestrial music. Science fiction literature has made it possible to understand how it might sound: a cacophony of smells or a symphony of free energy flows. With quotes from works by Isaac Asimov, Octavia E. Butler, Becky Chambers, Edward George, Stanislav Lem, Andi Petculescu, Sun Ra.
Cosmic Awakening
Festival: Concerts, films, talks, installations Nov 10–13, 2022
Manuel or A Hint of Evil / Schlechte Wörter
Part of Alphabet Readings Live Performance, Live Audio Play, Nov 2, 2022
Alphabet Readings: Manuel or A Hint of Evil
By and with Armin Lorenz Gerold, with Hanne Lippard English original version Live Audio Play, Nov 2, 2022