On Wed July 3, a special collaboration between anorak and Making Waves will be held at anorak's art space near Tempelhofer Feld.
19:00 Mazen Kerbaj's "Gaza on the Wall" is a selection of drawings made by Lebanese artist Mazen Kerbaj in response to the ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza. Kerbaj's drawings serve not only to bear witness and raise awareness, but also as a coping mechanism in an attempt to remain sane amidst the unfolding madness.
20:00 Nahed Samour & Pary El-Qalqili's "Erasure of Past and Present: The Palestinian Case" is a brilliant presentation that walks through methods of erasure that are used to push Palestinians outside of the public sphere and that infringe on fundamental rights to freedom of expression, protest, education, and citizenship. Erasure is also prevalent in archival knowledge that is stored “about Palestinians” in the German Federal Archive. Here, law and the imaginary will be probed in addressing the Palestinian as unequal and unfree, one that needs to be tamed and disciplined.
21:00 on: q&a, conversation, snacks, DJ Batata
anorak
Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44 (8th floor)
12099 Berlin-Tempelhof
full program details at anorakanorak.com
The beleaguered Carole, played by Jesse Marino, from "The Office," chapter 3 of her semi-autobiographical fantasy A Host of Possible Dramas and Exchanges
Last week of the season, then back in August!
Jun 17 Das Modern Song Kollektiv performs György Ligeti paired with Unsuk Chin; Henri Dutilleux with Kenneth Hesketh; and John Tavener with Judith Weir.
June 18 Chris Pitsiokos, works for saxophone, laptop, loudspeakers and light bulbs
June 19 Apparat + plays McCormack and Sdraulig | TinTin Patrone, solo trombone
June 20 Toshimaru Nakamura, solo for no-input mixing board | Kjell Bjørgeengen & Kazuhisa Uchihashi, duo for guitar/daxophone and live video
June 21 Toshimaru Nakamura & crys cole | Lost Jockey (Capece, Tolimieri & Beins) | Nakamura with Kjell Bjørgeengen & Kaffe Matthews
We're so taken aback (and majorly encouraged) to have received an Instant Award. Normally it goes to luminaries like Milford Graves, Joe McPhee, Henry Threadgill . . . the list goes on. But this year, they put the focus on small noncommercial venues like ours and gave us this lovely writeup:
"The jazz club, with its dim lighting and closely packed tables, looms large in our collective imagination," as Giovanni Russonello has stated in the New York Times. "But the real blood-pumping moments—the shows where you can sense that other musicians are in the room listening for new tricks, and it feels like the script is still being written onstage—have been happening most often in venues that don’t look like typical jazz clubs. They’re spaces where jazz bleeds outward, and converses with a less regimented audience."
Venues today are often times driven by non-for-profit organisation that operate from tiny desks with big hearts. Total devotion, no work-life balance, and great great music year in and year out. These venues are the heartbeat of the ever-changing precarious greatness of the contemporary music scene. They make the things happen that push the envelope and the music inch-by-inch into the present of the future. And they are loved by musicians and audience alike. For all the best reasons. We think Cafe OTO and KM28 are two of the best of these, and the Instant Award in Improvised Music wants to acknowledge and support these exemplary structures wholeheartedly.
Matmos arrive with nothing to declare except a metal cup, a blue balloon and their genius.
+ A real barn burner from Weston Olencki. Check out their latest release, Pearls Ground Down to Powder, for electromechanical banjo.
Making Waves #2 feaures a screening of Larissa Sansour's science fiction trilogy and a discussion with Irit Neidhardt and Rabih El Khoury on the challenges of producing, distributing and screening Arab/Palestinian films in the face of German censorship.
Palestinian filmmaker Sansour's three films A Space Exodus (2008), Nation Estate (2012) and In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2015) use the language of sci-fi and glossy production to present a dystopian vision of a Middle East on the brink of the apocalypse.
Irit Neidhardt is a curator, festival juror, and producer of numerous award-winning films and documentaries. In 2002 she founded mec film, a distribution company exclusively for Arab directors.
Rabih El-Khoury is chief programmer of Alfilm (Arab Film Festival of Berlin), curator of Safar Film Festival, and cofounder of Metropolis Art Cinema, Lebanon's only art-house cinema.
