ifyouspeakthetruthyourvoicebecomesariver
score, 2020
This score can be executed as a group performance,
creating the piece together. This score was the result of
a study group initiated by SAVVY Contemporary.
Performing the Living: Living the Performing:
This study group was evolving around Bonaventure Soh
Bejeng Ndikung's concept for “sonsbeek 2020”: Force
Times Distance – On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies”
engaging with the conditions and rights of labour in
history and present times. The lead tutors of this group,
Akinbode Akinbiyi and Arlette-Louise Ndakoze,
proposed to engage with the effects of labour and more
precisely with the effects of Western industrial systems
and their microcosms; the cities. Western industrial
societies build themselves upon violence. The study
group focussed on detachment as an indirect form of
violence; A psychological, emotional, physical
detachment experienced in modalities of carelessness.
How can we feed ourselves, make our economies, form
a common life? How can we recreate ecosystems?
An example of one version of this sound piece, made for
a performance at Radio Kootwijk: link.