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since May 15, 2019
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Artist, researcher, and cultural activist Yazan Khalili presents the lecture about Radio Alhara, but his talk primarily focuses on cultural structures and organisations – institutional and other – how they are built, funded, maintained, managed, etc. Drawing on his role as co-founder of this Palest…

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Ex Aqua is a live improvisational performance by theorist and poet Ayesha Hameed and musician Aimée Theriot. Their piece invites the audience into what Palestinian artist Bint Mbareh calls ‘aggressive listening’, exploring the concept of ‘exaqua’ – a term coined by poet M. NourbeSe Philip in Zong! …
Drawing from his forthcoming text Notes on the Third Ear (to be published by Urbanomic in 2026), musician, artist, and theorist Steve Goodman (Kode9) updates latent themes from his influential book Sonic Warfare to reflect on the politics of vibration within, poised upon, and beyond thresholds of a…
In her performative lecture Deep Time Soundings, researcher, curator, artist, and educator Margarida Mendes traces the rapidly changing ecology of Portugal’s Tagus River – a landscape marked by pollution, dam control, and eucalyptus monocultures that alter the river’s hydrology and desiccate surrou…
Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 Symposium Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 28 February 2026 Writer and theorist Flavia Dzodan presents Affective Logistics, a research project examining how computational infrastructures precondition, capture, and route emotion as logistical matter. Tracing genealogies from mili…
Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 Symposium Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1 March 2026 How can we understand speech and sound as situated? And how might we speak, write, and listen across our mother tongues? In her talk, pantea (Pantea Armanfar) shares a process of developing Maram-Nameh – an evolving, multil…
Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 Symposium Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 28 February 2026 In the performance lecture Politics and Desire, Violence and a Governance of Love, Salomé Voegelin asks whether love and political leadership can coexist, or whether political desire is always drawn toward violence and …
In the lecture Sonic Acts for the End of the World, theorist and writer Eleni Ikoniadou confronts a world in which state authoritarianism, fascist policing, ecological devastation, and live-streamed genocide have become normalised and legitimised as governing principles. Faced with forms of violenc…
Listening Hymns: Sonic Antifascism by ILYICH (Anton Kats) is a performative spoken-word archive. The project is the residue of the artist's multi-year research exploring sound and listening as generative practices within the research trajectory of Sonic Antifascism, and asks: how can sonic practice…
Tune in for episodes two and three of Sonic Trax, Sonic Acts' new podcast series, where we explore the organization's rich archive. Join us as we uncover the captivating stories behind the evolution of sound art and its lasting impact, bringing these insights closer to you!  In the two-part po…
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