Six Pillars Broadcast – Choreophobia

This week: British Iranian artist Lilian Nejatpour discusses her piece, Choreophobia. Nejatpour’s practice questions technological invasiveness and sentimentality. Choreophobia examines the intervening occurrence of colonialism and Western thought on Middle Eastern dance, with its interference on the censoring and transformation of gender and sensuality in male bodies. Choreophobia is at Chisenhale Studios in August as … Continue reading →

Six Pillars Broadcast – ‘At Home in Gaza and London’

This week on Resonance104.4FM, a visit from Julian Maynard, one of the directors of Station House Opera’s ground-breaking new piece: At Home in Gaza and London at Battersea Arts Centre. Using live-streaming, recorded video and innovative projection, At Home in Gaza and London brings performers from Gaza and London together live, in one performative, yet … Continue reading →

Six Pillars Broadcast – Radio Omid Mix

B Since 2006 on Mypsace, we’ve been following the burgeoning career of Iranian producer and DJ, based in Long Beach, California, of Omid Walizadeh. To follow his previous contributions to Six Pillars, this week’s fantastic guest mix pays tribute to the Walizadeh family, Homa Sarshar, Hamid Nour, Hayadeh, Sasoon Hayrapetyan and the Mofid Family. Many … Continue reading →

Six Pillars Broadcast – Borderless Festival, Statford

This week: the Theatre Royal Stratford East and GOAT Music’s presentation of ‘Borderless’ -a vibrant and wide reaching festival designed to dissolve ideas of ‘other’ in the collective swell of music. For this iteration, we hear music from The Turbans, Anushka + XOA, Deep Throat Choir + Some Voices, Sola Akingbola’s Critical Mass and Horace … Continue reading →

Broadcast: Contemporary Dance, Tunis

This week: Oumaïma Manaï, a young choreographer from Tunisia, discusses her role at the Tunisian Pavilion at Venice Biennale, and the role of hip hop in offering Tunisian youth an alternative language by which to express themselves. The pavilion holds no artworks but employs dance as a means of animating the debate on migration, around … Continue reading →

Six Pillars Broadcast – Arabic Laptop Keyboards

Born in Palestine [English Lyrics] I have no place I have no country I have no homeland With my fingers I make fire and with my heart I sing for you my heart’s strings weep I was born in Palestine I was born in Palestine I have no place I have no country I have … Continue reading →

This Week’s Show: Film Director Moncef Dhouib + Dancer Wael Maghni, JAOU Tunis

At JAOU Tunis, a symposium on Visual Culture in an Age of Global Conflict, we spoke to Moncef Dhouib, a renowned Tunisian film director, actor, screenwriter. The symposium took place at the Bardo Museum, Tunisia as it had done last year, despite horrific attacks on tourists earlier this year by militants. Dhouib is a veteran … Continue reading →

New Podcast @6pillars: Maziar Ghaderi, Mystic Translator

Iranian-Canadian media artist Maziar Ghaderi discusses his artistic practice, Playformance, the unique synthesis of performance art and interactive technology . Ghaderi visited the UAE this month for the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2014), where he showcased, Dissolving Self, an interactive performance that translates dance movements into stellar visualizations. The piece was inspired by Rumi’s … Continue reading →

This Week’s Six Pillars Broadcast – Show Your Love Don’t Throw it to Babylon

Hooray!  It’s all about value this week. We’ve tickets to give away to From Babylon to London at Jackson’s Lane Theatre February 16th, plus we’ll earmark several ResonanceFM fundraisers events going on around Valentine’s day, a chance for you to ‘show your love’. So get a pen and paper ready and catch the show LIVE … Continue reading →

Who is my generation? – Houra Yaghoubi

We first noticed Houra Yaghoubi (b.1979) in 2007 when she was one of a group of female artists from Iran showing in Asia House for 30 Years of Solitude which also went to  New Hall , Cambridge University, UK. This collection of photos, from 2005 toured the world’s art galleries between 2007-2010, from LACMA to … Continue reading →