2024 Residency: Nombuso Mathibela & Naledi Chai
The Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee residency programme supports artists experimenting with radio. The third of our 2024 residents, Nombuso Mathibela & Naledi Chai, presented the final outcome of their research through this seven-episode piece titled "Hi! Congo" – an ongoing four-part radio play centering the Democratic Republic of Congo. This project tells stories of the intangible ruins and consequences of colonial extractive economies through theories of home, dislocated diaries and displaced memories.
Read more about Nombuso and Naledi and listen to the piece here.
Our final 2024 resident, Bint Mbareh, will present her outcome shortly.
2024 Residency: Naomi Hettiarachchige Hubèrt
The Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee residency programme supports artists experimenting with radio. The second of our 2024 residents, Naomi Hettiarachchige Hubèrt, presented the final outcome of her research through this 60-minute sound piece titled "Interior Motives" – delving into the experience of being mentally and emotionally connected to multiple places at once.
Read more about Naomi and the piece here.
Tune in during the coming weeks for pieces from our other 2024 residents.
2024 Residency: buulbuul
The Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee residency programme supports artists experimenting with radio. The first of our 2024 residents, buulbuul, presented the final outcome of their research through this three-part "poetry bundle", titled "Nargis-e mastāna/Wilted Rose (Interlude)/What was a single seed, a garden now".
Read more about buulbuul and the piece here.
Tune in during the coming weeks for pieces from our other 2024 residents.
NEW RESIDENTS 2024
We are very happy to introduce our radio residents for 2024! This year's residency will feature works from Bint Mbareh, Buulbuul, Naomi Hettiarachchige Hubèrt, Nombuso Mathibela and Naledi Chai.
Bruno Zhu about A Maior
Bruno Zhu talks to us about A Maior, a curatorial program set in a home furnishings and clothing store in Viseu, Portugal. Listen now in our latest podcast episode, available on iTunes Podcasts or here below.
AUTUMN RESIDENCY 2023: KHAMOOSH
The Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee residency programme supports visual artists experimenting with radio. For our latest round in Autumn 2023, Khamoosh reflected on and researched previous ongoing projects that initially started from a trip that two of their members had made to Gouran village on Qeshm Island, located in the south of Iran.
SPRING 2023 RESIDENCIES COMPLETED
The Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee residency programme supports visual artists experimenting with radio. Our latest round of residencies have now come to a close, with Spring 2023 residents Mikatsiu and Alec Mateo presenting the final outcomes of their research through the audio pieces below.
Listen back: Channelling
Channelling. Be a vehicle. A path. A hole. Go. Let go. Make way for something to happen. Something, the other. Be others. Guide. Make room and draw a line. Mark a step. Divide. Contain. Carry from one place to another. Create. A plan, a landscape, a spectrum, a call.
'Channelling' connects the medium of audio with other realms. In this online collective exhibition curated by Andrea González, three artists explore channelling through sound:
Channelling 1: Laia Estruch
Channelling 2: Anahit
Channelling 3: Ainhoa Hernández Escudero
Listen back: The sonic experience of life
This three-part series engaged and put into dialogue the sound-based practices of musician and laughter practitioner Laraaji and choreographer and performer Raoni Muzho Saleh. Listen back to and heal with both artists in the first two episodes, and hear their intergenerational exploration of collective sounding as a healing practice in the third, with Radna Rumping.
Listen back to all episodes of Vampires Can´t Have Anything
A live show about all the vampire references in our contemporary visual culture by Elif Satanaya Özbay and Andrea González Garrán.
New HHHorizons: Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee + residents at the Thomaskerk for ADE
During ADE 2023, Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee collaborated with Het HEM and Horst Arts & Music Festival on two evenings of interdisciplinary performances at the Thomaskerk in Amsterdam, called New HHHorizons. At the brutalist church building above, we presented a listening session with excerpts from the archive selected by founders Arif Kornweitz and Radna Rumping, followed by the work of residents Alec Mateo and Mikatsiu, on Thursday 19 October and Friday 20 October, respectively.
MF muun: a dj archeology
To conclude his residency at Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, Emiddio Vasquez presents MF muun: a dj archeology, a backspin on his opening work nuum FM. Here he approaches radio through its “transmission-reception” operation in a dual form: its political character in the history of pirate radio and its ecological role in bat’s echolocation.
Artun Alaska Arasli
An attempt to approach the radio play genre through what surrounds it, Philoctetes: Rehearsals (Act I) is the first act in imagining the processes of a non-existent play through the play's rehearsals and the life of its actors outside practice hours. Presented here in this first act is the beginning of its rehearsal processes: actors commute back and forth to the rehearsal space, and initial discussions are carried out to grasp the text. This radio play is made almost entirely out of found sounds, with occasional interjections by the artist.
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On Access Riders
Access docs / access riders / care riders are used by artists living with disability to ensure that their needs are met when working with others. They help to cover important issues prior to beginning a working relationship, allowing both the organization's team and artists to feel confident and comfortable in their interactions with each other.
For this report, artist Fabian Reichle joined the closing event of the residency of collective at7 at Hotel Maria Kapel.