Episode 4 – Bay Area

Episode 4 – Bay Area © Grafik: © Šejma Fere Episode 4 – Bay Area Grafik: © Šejma Fere
A podcast by Lara Sarkissian

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

Bay Area’s Interdisciplinary Artistic Blueprint

Episode 4 of the Timezones podcast series, co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut. This episode features some of the most forward-thinking contemporary musicians and visual artists currently based in the Bay Area.

There is an unspoken blueprint in the Bay Area arts and music communities allowing artists an organic crossover between practices and languages. A hybridizing of mediums that arises from spaces of deep experimentation. From the Bay Area’s openness and curiosity to the limitations of physical spaces to work and gather in – leading to the creation of multipurpose spaces that host artists across visual art, performance, and music, thus resulting in crossovers

Each in their unique way, the artists featured in this episode refuse to let one practice define their artistic world nor allow it to create a boundary. Their practices range from composition, music production, and multi-instrument performance to film direction, video art, sculpture, and more. The artists not only discuss how their practices within sonic and visual worlds are shaped by the Bay Area’s social, cultural, and political landscape, but also how they work with the limitations and contradictions that arise as a result of tensions in their artist-place relationship.
 

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Bonus Material


The Norient Space features additional material on arts and music in the Bay Area region:

The Soul of a City
A Timezones podcast bonus talk with Lara Sarkissian and Khatchadour Khatchadourian about surviving without space in the Bay Area

moderated by Steph Kretowicz

Writer, editor, and journalist Steph Kretowicz talks to sound artist, electronic composer, DJ, and co-founder of Club Chai Lara Sarkissian, along with collaborator and musician Khatchadour Khatchadourian about their Timezones episode. Together, they discuss reflecting the diasporic experience through sound and surviving without space in the Californian tech capital.
 

Credits

Credits:

Direction and Production: Lara Sarkissian
Music: Lara Sarkissian
Trailer Voiceover: Nana Akosua Hanson
Trailer Mix: Daniel Jakob
Mastering: Adi Flück, Centraldubs
Artwork: Šejma Fere

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