"Listening to the World — 100 Years of Radio Art takes the 100 year anniversary of Radio Art in Germany as an opportunity to inquire radio and listening as global phenomena with visible and invisible worldwide connections. On 19 October 2024, the multiformat programme presents perspectives and pra ... ctices from Southern Africa and other geographically, politically, and sonically related areas. In the process of studying the role of radio broadcasting in Southern Africa one is invited to ask existential questions, such as: What can radio broadcasting provide today? How can the medium be used to intervene artistically? And in which areas and from which perspective? Through these questions, attention shifts towards mechanisms of different knowledge production systems that shape and define the interpretations of radio both as technology and cultural entity. In many people’s experience, acts of listening are intertwined with acts of remembering: sound can function as a form of memory. In the aforementioned regions, this manifests as creative rituals that carry a plethora of subjective and political meaning. This programme considers these acts of listening as operating from and within a background of colonial trauma. How can radio both as technology and cultural medium facilitate a reappraisal and amplify its healing effect? The encounters focussing on these questions are hosted in a 12-hour live radiophonic exchange involving communities and radio stations in Cape Town, Harare, and Berlin. This live platform, broadcasted in and from HKW via the experimental radio station Cashmere Radio in Berlin, provides a chance to test collective commitments on listening towards global justice, addressing colonially fractured practices of listening." (Introduction) more

"Le forum Médias et Développement propose aux médias partenaires de CFI en provenance d’Afrique, d’Asie, d’Europe et du monde arabe de débattre, de s’interroger et de croiser leurs regards sur l’ensemble de ces questions. Tous se retrouveront à Paris pour ce moment unique d’échange ... , les 11 et 12 décembre 2019, afin de partager leurs pratiques, leurs solutions, leurs difficultés et leurs innovations." (Page 2) more

"The role of historical memory and of cultural remembrance in societies dealing with dramatic transformations and, at times, traumatic pasts are numerous. In this conference, we will look at post-apartheid South Africa and reunified German society, how each country views itself, as well as the diffe ... rences and similarities in their approach to interrogating and confronting the past. The Afro-German dialogue looks at the politics of remembrance and current practices in the process of historical remembrance: How do we remember and how do we process these memories? What versions of the past exist and what versions are negotiated by society and the political arena? What role does the question concerning the future form or common vision of a society play in shaping today’s politics of remembrance? Representatives from the academic world, civil society, the media and culture will be discussing the potential for integration and reconciliation within the contemporary cultures of remembrance in South Africa and Germany." (Introduction) more