The City Talks Back: Assembly 2 Programme

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SATURDAY 26.6

12.00 – 12.30 UK / 14.00 – 14.30 GR

Infrastructures for Voice – Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall

Fani Kostourou and John Bingham-Hall introduce The City Talks Back: Assembly 2 with a series of provocations connecting the infrastructures and the performances that stage political speech.

12.30 – 13.00 UK / 14.30 – 15.00 GR

her moon is a captured object – Ella Finer

her moon is a captured object is a composition turning in orbit, with a translation by Angeliki Tzortzakaki cut to vinyl by Jem Finer. Two records playing the two Greek translations with interconnected compositions will be mixed live by Yorgos Samantas.

13.00 – 14.00 UK / 15.00 – 16.00 GR

And everywhere vibrations: a roundtable with Ella Finer, Pamela Jordan and Vibeke Mascini

Ella Finer is joined by architect and sensory archeologist Pamela Jordan and visual artist and writer Vibeke Mascini in a discussion about the implicit politics in sonic relationships to site, scientific-mystical sonorous bonds, infrasonic and inaudible frequencies.

14.00 – 15.30 UK / 16.00 – 17.30 GR

Mix: Staging vocalities – John Bingham-Hall

John Bingham Hall presents a half-an-hour-long show, exploring the seductiveness, the collective madness and the power dynamics of song through its vocal configurations and relationships to the architectural spaces that stage  them.

15.30 – 16.15 UK / 17.30 – 18.15 GR

Ακούς την Αθήνα; Ένας διάλογος – Fani Kostourou, Eugenia Maragkou and Dimos Mamaloudis

Fani Kostourou is joined by performers Evgenia Maragkou and Dimos Mamaloudis to perform a radio play based on Ακούς την Αθήνα; | Do you hear Athens? sound piece from The City Talks: Back Assembly 1 and drawing attention to the often antagonistic acoustic relations between the domestic and public spheres in Athens.

16.15 – 17.00 UK / 18.15 – 19.00 GR

Lovesong Revolution – Urok Shirhan

Urok Shirhan’s piece from The City Talks: Back Assembly 1 creates a sonic essay composed of political songs and sounds, thinking about the amplification of sound through embodiment.

17.00 – 18.00 UK / 19.00 – 20.00 GR

Lovesong Revolution: a roundtable with Urok Shirhan, Rayya Badran, and Yorgos Samantas

Urok Shirhan invites Athens-based anthropologist Yorgos Samantas and Beirut-based writer Rayya Badran for a discussion on collective chants, echoes of protests, and the silences in between.

SUNDAY 27.6

12.00 – 12.30 UK / 14.00 – 14.30 GR

Priestesses of disgrace, you bring joy into my life – Mercedes Azpilicueta, Angeliki Tzortzakaki and Maria Sideri

This is the second act of the artists’ piece Priestesses of disgrace from The City Talks Back: Assembly 1. It is a live radio show composed of a conversation between the three artists with pre-recorded soundscapes and excerpts from the updated script; as well as music by women singers that have shaped a feminist voice identity in the cities of Athens and Buenos Aires.

12.30 – 13.00 UK / 14.30 – 15.00 GR

Route One: Delays – Tim Ward

Route One follows a typical commuter journey around the Athens suburbs. Delays is a live electronic performance that builds on the same work by using the physical creation of delays to explore memory, recollection and transformation. 

13.00 – 14.00 UK / 15.00 – 16.00 GR

Circular Movements: Imagining an Anticolonial Athens – a roundtable with Tom Western, Penelope Papailias, and George Mantzios

This broadcast brings together members of Decolonize Hellas, Penelope Papailias and George Mantzios, taking Tom Western’s piece from The City Talks Back: Assembly 1 ‘Παγκόσμια Ηχώ | Echos-Monde | The World is Echo’ as a jumping off point to run with circular movements, connect histories that are mobile and migratory, and speak an anticolonial Athens. 

14.00 – 15.00 UK / 16.00 – 17.00 GR

A Loud Voice Never Dies – Urok Shirhan

A Loud Voice Never Dies is an essay commissioned by The Derivative, based on the work Lovesong Revolution piece from The City Talks Back: Assembly 1. A Greek translation by Geli Mademli is recorded by Fani Kostourou, followed by a selection of political songs. 

15.00 – 16.00 UK / 17.00 – 18.00 GR

Athens 2021: On the possibility of sonic monuments –  akoo.o (Yorgos Samantas, Nicos Bubaris and Dana Papachristou)

Experimenting with the format of audio papers, members of akoo.o group propose a framework for making sound monuments by bringing together material and symbolic aspects of sonic events with the politics of public space and of remembering.

16.00 – 17.00 UK / 18.00 – 19.00 GR

Mix: Driving on Trion Ierarchon – George Kafka

George Kafka presents an hour-long mix comprising music overheard from cars passing his first floor flat on Trion Ierarchon; a busy road running through the central Athenian neighbourhood of Petralona.

17.00 – 18.00 UK / 19.00 – 20.00 GR

The City Talks Back group roundtable

Curators of The City Talks Back programme, John Bingham-Hall, Fani Kostourou and George Kafka host an hour-long call-in show inviting the public to interact, share their opinions, or ask questions.

MONDAY 28.6 

00.00 – 24.00 GR

Ακούς την Αθήνα; | Do you hear Athens? – Fani Kostourou and Eleanna Santorinaiou

Fani Kostourou’s and Eleanna Santorinaiou’s piece from The City Talks Back: Assembly 1 is a 24-hour audio piece compiled from 101 field recordings from balconies in different neighbourhoods of Athens in May and June 2020.