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Sonic Interventions

Sonic Interventions

By: Intervening Arts - Freie Universität Berlin
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A podcast about the poetics of sound and its power to disrupt norms and transform society. Each episode presents conversations with musicians, sound artists, visual artists and theatre-makers, with a special ear for postcolonial and/or queer sonic possibilities. Season 1 (Feb-April 2023) was launched for Black History Month with a focus on New York and Chicago. Season 2 (Sep-Oct 2023) features artists based in Berlin, Paris, and Yogyakarta. Season 3 showcased South African voices and sounds (Feb-March 2024) and Season 4 (May-July 2024) Polish artists, activists and curators. Our new season starting in January 2026 focuses on interventions in Germany by Black, African and Afro-diasporic artists. A project conceived by Dr. Layla Zami for the Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts (SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste) and the Performance Studies Department (Institut für Theaterwissenschaft) at Freie Universität Berlin. Special thanks: P&T Knitwear Bookstore and Podcast Studio, Blueprint Studio Johannesburg Co-produced by Eufoniker AudioproduktionIntervenierende Künste - SFB1512 - Freie Universität Berlin Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Music Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Unlikely Witnesses to History

    Unlikely Witnesses to History
    Mar 17 2026
    Artist and researcher Rehema Chachage is in conversation with Jan Dammel about mixed-media installations in Johannesburg, Leipzig and Stade. They discuss Rehema’s long-term engagement with her matriline, how songs can serve as “unlikely witnesses to history”, and how the marigold speaks to both colonial uprooting of plants to Tanzania and intergenerational transmissions.
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    41 mins
  • Mit und gegen das Archiv (in German with English Intro)

    Mit und gegen das Archiv (in German with English Intro)
    Feb 20 2026
    Hörspielmacher:in Joel Vogel und Musiker Vincent Bababoutilabo sprechen über gemeinsame Projekte wie ihren dekolonialen Hörspaziergang zurückERZÄHLT (2020), der Akte des Widerstands von 106 Personen aus den damaligen ‚deutschen Kolonien‘, die im Sommer 1896 im Berliner Treptower Park arbeiteten und lebten, ins Zentrum stellt. Sie berichten von ihrem Umgang mit dem (kolonialen) Archiv, von der Möglichkeit mit Sound gewaltvolle Geschichte anders zu erzählen und davon, wie ihr Audiowalk seit fünf Jahren Menschen versammelt.
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    40 mins
  • Fabrics of Change

    Fabrics of Change
    Jan 21 2026
    Season 5, curated by Jan Dammel, focuses on artistic interventions in Germany that deal with colonialism and its ongoing legacies. This first episode features multi-disciplinary artist Percy Nii Nortey and curator Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, who collaborated on the group exhibition “Colonial Ghosts – Resistant Spirits” in Berlin’s St. Nicholas Church. Learn more about Nortey’s dialogue with, and celebration of, the working class in Ghana and how bold fabric and sonic artworks, also by Theresa Weber, challenge and transform post/colonial (church) spaces.
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    44 mins
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