School for Sonic Memory
Scores, images, texts, smells, choreography, music, and recorded sounds at the Onassis Stegi Exhibition Space
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Friday 17th of June
19:00 - 19:15 | Welcoming notes and Introduction to the School for Sonic Memory
19:30 - 19:45 | We will meet at the vanishing point, Youmna Saba
20:00 - 20:40 | The South inside, Sam Karpienia
21:00 - 22:00 | Akoo-o listening session
Saturday 18th of June
16:00 - 18:00 | Mapping Workshop, Cluster
19:30 - 19:45 | We will meet at the vanishing point, Youmna Saba
20:00 - 20:40 | A Ten years walk to shore, Ahmed Saleh
Introduction
Six nomadic and nine local residents explore the ways in which Marseille, Athens, and Alexandria resonate with one another. The circulation of knowledge, migration, water, heritage, mythology, memory, and the notion of citizenship examined through scores, images, texts, smells, choreography, music, and recorded sounds.
Maria Ilia Kastrouni | Redeeming Gossip
Through a multisensorial exploration comprising scores, images, texts, smells, choreography, music, and recorded sounds, the authors respond to some of the wider themes emerging from the residency: the circulation of knowledge, migration, water, heritage, mythology, memory, and the notion of citizenship.
You are invited to embark on a journey across the Mediterranean basin offering alternative narratives of what it means, or might mean, to belong to a sea rather than a country.
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Photo: Margarita Nikitaki
The mapping workshop with Omar Nagati is intended to introduce participants in the School of Sonic Memory in Alexandria, and potentially wider audience, to a number of critical methods and mapping tools based on CLUSTER’s work, as well as larger urban questions facing Egyptian cities. The workshop may also introduce a short exercise to hypothetically map and engage stakeholders within the current context and urban politics of Alexandria.
CLUSTER is an independent urban research and design platform based in Cairo with a wide range of programs, publications, and online platforms. CLUSTER has an extensive experience of mapping tangible and intangible urban heritage in cities in the MENA region and Africa.
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The project “Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginaries” (ALEX) aims to take a fresh look at the many challenges faced by the arts and heritage sectors, through the symbolic and historical prism of the city of Alexandria and its influences on urban development in the Mediterranean and beyond. The project is supported by the European Union's Creative Europe program.
