The Beyond 1932 Artist-in-Residence Programme is run by Dr Rim Irscheid and invites sound practitioners across the fields of sound art, experimental and electroacoustic music to reflect on the sonic and colonial legacy of the 1932 Cairo Congress.
Six residencies from 2024-2027 reflect on issues around music pedagogy, contemporary archival practices, notation and tuning, and multidisciplinary performance practices. The residency series is providing a platform for artist-led approaches to archiving and sonic interventions that address the issues around control and power of institutional archives and politics of cultural representation and intersectional counter-archives in the region.
Hardi Kurda
The first residency on 11 May 2024 at Café OTO, London, with sound artist Hardi Kurda marked the UK launch of Archive Khanah, a community-based sound archive that uses video gaming strategy to capture and perform 1920-1970s music from Iraq and Kurdistan The event was part of Space21 Festival based across Slemani (Kurdistan) and its artist networks in Lebanon, Cyprus and the UK.
The following residencies are confirmed:
Rust Duo
(Lebanon/Syria, based in Czech Republic)
Date: Friday 7 March 2025.
Location: Greenwood Theatre
Sara Hamdy
(Egypt)
Date: Monday 31 March 2025.
Location: British Library
Dr Rim Irscheid: rim-irscheid.com