Black sounds, white ears

In the organizer's words:

Daily life in our post-migrant society is characterized by longings and questions of belonging. Who is heard, what is seen, whose stories are told? In our new event series "Longings and Belongings", we want to hear, see, discuss and make plural, multi-layered and intersectional realities tangible.

A critical examination of jazz reception in the music and art scene in Germany - Guests: Harald Kisiedu, Anys Reimann, Hermes Villena - on May 16 at 8 pm

Jazz offers space for identities, stories and innovation. Since the Oscar nomination of the documentary "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" at the latest, the political dimension of jazz and its role in colonialism has increasingly come into focus. Jazz is listened to and received with pleasure, but Black voices are hardly considered in music (science), even erased. In his lecture, Harald Kisiedu sheds light on these and other issues such as representation in the context of epistemic violence and looks at the reception of German jazz from a critical perspective. In the subsequent lecture performance, artists Anys Reimann and Hermes Villena will present their jazz collections and describe their personal journey through jazz and the connection between jazz and art. Followed by a party with Hermes Villena's record collections.