Assembling Land podcast series
Design by Mel Keane
Episode 01: Imagining Land (On Palestine) airs on Thursday 11 April at 6pm CEST/EET on Radio Alhara.
Weaving together found footage, Palestinian folk songs, musings on resistance and solidarity, we rehearse a sonic protest in search for alternative ways of sharing knowledge. A series of podcasts are taking shape through our confluence in sessions of Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making articulated in the various locations where we meet.
The podcasts are formed in chapters corresponding to our peer-to-peer learning around Land, Housing and Out/Institution, each time seeking ways to question ourselves and by way of listening to the varied and polyrhythmic offerings from the people and places we encounter. In this process of place-making, we explore our practices and transmit through the broadcasting platform and extended community of Radio Alhara.
Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy unfolding throughout 2024. Through the group’s monthly encounters, five podcasts will share the harvest of each iteration with attuned overarching themes as departure points. This first episode was initiated in January 2024 at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania, during Confluence 1: Imagining Land & Water.
Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is a nomadic accredited MA program landing in various locations and for seven times (confluences) per academic year with the student body and crew. The study groups, which last the full academic year, are one of the pillars of its program and are carefully composed of and conducted by collaborations with an art institution, in this case de Appel in Amsterdam.
Episode 01 colophon
When does the land become a territory?
Chapter 1, Land w/ Sara Alberani, Qiaoling Cai, Saverio Cantoni, Echo Guo, Kıvanç Sert
Acknowledgements:
Collective Reading of Love On The Palestinian Way (1999), PAF, March 2024; Sabreen - Love On The Palestinian Way (1999); Fuck Your Lecture On Craft, My People Are Dying by Noor Hindi (2020); Catastrophic Sonnet - Issam Zineh; Checkpoint 303 - Gaza Sea Minor (Gaza Mixtape EP); Collective clapping intermission, PAF, January 2024; We Planted the Sage - زرعنا المرمية performed by Alzinnar; Music from Foragers (2022) by Jumana Manna; Forensic Architecture: Notes from Fields and Forums - The Pyramids of Gaza; Palestine Solidarity Demonstration in Berlin, February 2024.
How does the landscape tell the history or stories of the land?
Chapter 2, Housing w/
Part 1- Eszter Dobos, Sille Kima; Sound design & mix: Sille Kima
Part 2- Federica Nicastro, Francesca Pionati; Sound design & mix: Alberto Boni, Francesca Pionati
Part 3- Shaza Omran, Meii Soh; Sound design & mix: Sille Kima; Voice: Randa Awad
Acknowledgements:
Eye on Palestine; Resistance News Network’ Al Jazeera; Middle East Monitor; Gaza by Kyles Soundpack - 2016 Gaza City on freesound.org; Mohannad Abu Rizk (@mohannad.aburizk); YouTube: Rim Banna - ‘On Top of The Mountain’; poet Abu Najji singing improvised poetry on the occupied land of Palestine; improvised melange of traditional palestinian and spanish songs ‘Ya Talein El-jabal’ & ‘Panadera’ by Terez Sliman & Sophia Adriana on a boat in Cairo.
What does an institution of resistance sound like?
Chapter 3, Out/Institution: Foad Alijani, Chloë Janssens, Tuba Kılıç, Anastasia Nefedova, Thamyres VM
Acknowledgements:
Refaat Alareer (via @bintdisco); Palestine Solidarity Demonstration in Rotterdam (via @himhili); @sheih.jpg singing with Hajje Safiye; @rabetbypipd Im Mohammed baking taboun bread; @motaz_azaiza “Never forget to say Free Palestine ✌️”.