Show Notes
This episode is a conversation between jee chan, Jelena Golubović and Bilawa Ade Respati.
This episode is a conversation between jee chan, jelena golubovic, and Bilawa Ade Respati. jee is an artist in the first cohort of the Rose Choreographic School, whose practice often examines the potential of the displaced body, driven by their research concerning ancestral epistemologies and oral histories. jelena works across music, visual arts, and conceptual practice, exploring the intersections of language, society, and the sensorial. Bilawa is a musician and performing artist whose current artistic interest lies in the dialectic between tradition and innovation, as well as the revaluation of traditional values in contemporary life. In this episode of þ thorns þ, recorded in Berlin, you'll hear an insight into the questions, tensions, and forces that shape their collaborative project titled laut jerebu (the sea where land is out of sight). Drawing upon their respective lived experiences across Southeast Asia and Southeast Europe, they discuss issues surrounding the choreographies of language, mapping, nationhood, and diaspora in relation to the construction of plural and post-colonial identities.
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