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Norient @ Keck-Kiosk Basel
Auf Einladung des Hauses für elektronische Künste Basel H3K bespielt Norient von August bis Oktober den Keck-Kiosk auf dem Basler Kasernenareal. Wir zeigen 200 aktuelle, schrille und experimentelle...
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The Relationship Bubble Problem in Temi Dollface’s «Pata Pata»
In her videoclip «Pata Pata» Nigerian singer Temi Dollface makes fun of women who escape from their stuck relationship by throwing themselves into consumption, creating their own bubble of materialist...
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Satirical Rap from Pakistan
Rapper Ali Gul Pir from Karachi offers biting satire and humor, and he has a lot of courage. In tracks like «Waderai Ka Beta» [about the feudal system] and «#KholoBC» [against the ban of YouTube in...
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Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World
The upcoming Norient exhibition «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» shows and discusses contemporary video clips, tracks and Sound Art from around the globe. The exhibition opens at Forum...
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Participate in the Norient Round Table!
With Norient we are currently working towards the exhibition «Seismographic Sounds - Visions of a New World» (see project page here), that is going to open in August 2015 in Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau...
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Seismographic Sounds: Audio Tracklists
Skip through the tracklists from the sound installations and the mixtapes, presented in the Norient exhibition «Seismographic Sounds – Visions from a New World». Mixtapes Audio-Ufo Lucia Udvardyová...
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Norient Book – Seismographic Sounds
The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music, sounds and music videos. Edited by Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter and...
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B-movies and Biracial Creatures
It is one of Norient's most favored music videos from the past years: «Nunca Tendremos Mar» from the Bolivian underground band Gato Diablo. Here rock critic Javier A. Rodríguez Camacho analyzes the...
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The Creature’s Grip
Gato Diablo's music video «Nunca Tendremos Mar» (We'll Never Have the Sea) discusses Bolivia's national trauma: the loss of its access to the sea in the War of the Pacific between 1879-1883. Read a...
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Exotica in South African House Music
South Africa is awash with house music hits. Writer Percy Mabandu takes us through a maze of hit music videos to study the genre’s fascination with performed exotica. He asks whether these clips aim to...
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Pulling the Plug on Art
In their 2014 music video «#Kholo BC» Karachi-based rapper and comedian Ali Gul Pir and rapper and singer/songwriter Adil Omar criticize the Pakistani government for banning the video-sharing site...
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A Finger to the Establishment
«Nowadays no song is independent», says journalist Manal Faheem Khan from Karachi and explains how the Pakistani music business works. The music video «#Kholo BC» by Ali Gul Pir and Adil Omar might be...
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The Power of Pleasure
Dances such as perreo in reggaeton receive much criticism for being sexist. But what do women who actually dance to them think? Petra R. Rivera-Rideau explores issues of female self-representation and...
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Indians in Pedestrian Zones
Peru-born and Germany-based ethnomusicologist Julio Mendivil performed with folkloric groups on the streets and squares of Germany to earn his living. His short insider-ethnography discusses how Andean...
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Who Deserves It?
A kaleidoscopic tumble through decades of international street fashion, the video clip «Champs-Élysées» poses puzzles about class and style. Drawing from Britain’s chav, America’s ghetto fabulous, and...
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Fresh and Ironic
«In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.» That's how the video clip «Champs-Élysées» by...
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Splendid Isolationists
Olimpia Splendid transcend Finland’s tight-knit free folk scene with giddy punk recklessness. This year they released their debut album and with their 2014 video clip «Jukka-Pekka» they are part of the...
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The One-Dimensional Cashier
A lonely and sad man, sitting on a conveyor belt, scanning fizzy drinks and marshmallows. That's (almost) all you see in the 2013 music video «Jukka-Pekka» by Finnish underground punk band Olimpia...
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Safely Mocking the Islamic State
Sha‘ban ‘Abd al-Rahim is the most famous Egyptian singer to comment on politics in the contemporary era. His political statements impress fans. Egyptian governments, however, have treated him as a...
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Finland «Lo», and «Fi»
In another commentary by Giacomo Bottà, the 2013 music video «Jukka-Pekka» by Finnish underground punk band Olimpia Splendid has been represented as a critique of the capitalist labor system. Here,...
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