𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐍𝐄 art historian, critic, curator and artistic director of the Biennale Internationale de Casablanca Eyene research fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) where she collaborates to Making Histories Visible, an interdisciplinary visual arts research project documenting, supporting, and sharing the histories of creative practices on diversity. Her areas of research and curatorial practice encompass contemporary African and Diaspora arts, feminism, photography and sound art. In the frame of #WeThePeople, with the Webinar 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, 𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 , she will analyse, in dialogue with Brandon LaBelle and Hypatia Vourloumis , the social and political dimension of listening, discovering its emotional potential. Live streaming on Facebook and Youtube | 5.30 pm ▶ https://bit.ly/talk-online-atlas.

#AboutArtist 𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐈 𝐙𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐒 choreographer and visual artist of Belarussian origin, Arkadi Zaides focus on the ways in which political and social contexts affect body movements and gestures. giving rise, at the same time, to a choreographic work capable of pushing and bringing the spetcators out of their comfort zone. His performances and installations have been presented in numerous dance and theater festivals, museums and galleries across Europe, North and South America and Asia. In the frame of #WeThePeople Arkadi presents 𝐍𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬, an online performance in which, by combining the scientific investigation and choreographic practice, he tries to cope with the failed identification of the migrants who have lost their lives on their way to Europe . With Necroplis, Arkadi creates a ritual act of indictment and sorrow,inviting the viewer not to turn his gaze elsewhere. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝐭𝐡 // 𝟗 𝐩.𝐦. CET📆 live streaming performance + talk with Arkadi Zaides, Francesca Mannocchi, Sandro Mezzadra and Piersandra Di Matteo ▶ https://bit.ly/necropolis-fb 📸 ph Joeri Thiry

#Aboutartist 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞📚 is an artist, writer and theorist working with 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦. He develops artistic projects within a range of international contexts, often working collaboratively and in public spaces, leading to performative installations, poetic theater, storytelling and research actions aimed at forms of experimental community making. He is editor of Errant Bodies Press, Berlin and Professor at the Department of Contemporary Art, University of Bergen. He will host the seminar 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, 𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 for Atlas of Transitions Biennale - We The People, with Christine Eyene and Hypatia Vourloumis. The seminar invites to reflect on collaborative sound and listening and how they operate within the practices and it investigates the social and political dimensions of the act of listening, focusing on affective and epistemological potentials. For more information ▶https://www.facebook.com/events/3726034357426796/