released September 30, 2021

[NT006]

Co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut

Featuring: 8ULENTINA / Esra Canoğulları, Nadia Shihab, Sofía Córdova, Khatchadour Khatchadourian, Greekor Greg Nemet

Direction and Production: Lara Sarkissian
Music: Lara Sarkissian
Artistic Editor: Suvani Suri
Project Management: Hannes Liechti
Trailer Voiceover: Nana Akosua Hanson
Trailer Mix: Daniel Jakob
Mastering: Adi Flück, Centraldubs
Artwork: Šejma Fere


8ULENTINA / Esra Canoğulları is the co-founder of Club Chai, an event series, curatorial project, record label, and radio show that hybridizes non-Western sounds with electronic music. 8ULENTINA’s work as a DJ, producer and interdisciplinary artist focuses on creating diasporic spaces through the use of sound, sculpture, garments and video. Their sets include a wide range of BPMs and genres, piecing together varying percussive styles and combining non-Western dance music with club, techno, rap, and R&B. 8ULENTINA’s debut EP EUCALYPTUS was released in February 2018 via Club Chai, their second EP BODYGUARD was released via London-based label TT (fka Tobago Tracks) in March 2019.

Nadia Shihab works across film, collage, and sound and engages with personal and diasporic histories to explore the ways alternative narratives can be found through a rearrangement of fragmented ones. She worked as a community practitioner for over a decade before directing her feature-length debut, Jaddoland, a personal documentary set in her mother Lahib Jaddo’s home in Texas. The film won five festival jury awards, including an IFP Independent Spirit Award in 2020. She was raised in the Texas panhandle by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen and currently lives and works in Oakland, California.

Sofía Córdova was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, in 1985 and is currently based in Oakland, California. She creates works that consider sci-fi as alternative history, dance music’s liberatory potential, the internet, colonial contamination, mystical objects, and extinction and mutation as evolution, within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism, and its technologies. She works in performance, video, sound, installation, photography, and sometimes taxidermy. She is one half of the music duo and experimental sound outfit XUXA SANTAMARIA.

Khatchadour Khatchadourian was born in Lebanon and grew up singing in the Syrian-Armenian children’s choir Karoun for seven years. He credits the beginning of his musical focus on meditative genres to his early years singing in the Armenian Orthodox church. He began playing the duduk, an Armenian woodwind instrument, in 2006. He holds bachelor’s degrees in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Greekor Greg Nemet began his photography in the early 2000s when he moved to the Bay Area from Brooklyn, NY. Greg studied film photography in the final days of the pre-digital era, using the wet process. After leaving SF State, he worked in various areas of the photography industry. From fashion and architecture to event photography and portraiture, Greg spent the latter portion of the 2000s immersed in the Bay Area’s photo and art scene. After the 2008 recession, with gentrification setting in, he ventured into the winemaking world and currently works as the winemaker at his family winery Kareen Wine.

TIMEZONES – A PODCAST SERIES

The TIMEZONES podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: What does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities and contexts today? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political and intellectual realities and their philosophies (of life) have been worked up into experimental audio collages.

The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The TIMEZONES series endeavours to create new artistic forms of storytelling, listening and exchange across the boundaries of geography, time zones, genres and practices.

The TIMEZONES Podcast Series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute.

Listen to all Episodes here: norient.com/timezones
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