Broadcast: Poetry in Motion Film Series

Poetry in Motion at the Barbican celebrates the millennia-long traditions of Iranian poetry and art by linking them with Iran’s Contemporary Iranian Cinema today. Festival programmer Elhum Shakerifar visits the studio to discuss the commissions of original poetry (from poets Amy Key, Martha Sprackland and Will Harris) and responses by fine artists to some of … Continue reading →

New Season of Six Pillars

This new season on Resonance104.4FM, Six Pillars provides an antidote to mainstream media outside these regions, with their damagingly limited Orientalist and alarmist lenses. Focusing on choice contemporary West Asian (Middle Eastern), North African and South Asian sound, art and culture, tune in for experimental music, arts and culture. Broadcasts (UK time) Wednesday 9-9.30pm Repeats … Continue reading →

This Week’s Six Pillars – The Tentative Collective, Karachi.

As part of Resonance104.4fm’m new weekly series of Six Pillars we begin broadcasting on Wednesdays 9pm. This week we speak with artist/curator Haajra Haider Karrar and artist Fazal Rizvi about their part in The Tentative Collective, founded by Yaminay Chaudhri. The group of artists and curators engage with their home town of Karachi, Pakistan via … Continue reading →

Today’s Six Pillars Show – Sound Artist Eshaei

Tonight’s Six Pillars is a studio visit by sonic artist Pouya Ehsaei. Not a man of many words, his sound speaks for itself, experiments with electronics and effects, live improv and recognisable avant garde form. We sample several new tracks from his forthcoming album plus one from the band Zang, with which Ehsaei plays, in … Continue reading →

June Radio Shows

June 7th The British-Iranian art exhibition ‘New Players, New Roles’ open until June 16th an interview with participating artists and music from the live electronics performance by Parstronix. http://sixpillars.org/2013/05/24/british-iranian-art-show-open-london-31-may-2013/ June 14th Postcards from Iran – we listen to audio voice files sent from Iran especially for the show as well as experimental music being produced … Continue reading →

Global Futures. This Week’s Six Pillars to Persia Show

This week as a nod to the close ties and differences between Iraq and Iran as viewed from an arts perspective, we interview Dr. Jonathan Harris, Director of Research at Winchester School of Art. the Winchester School host a two day conference on Iran and Iraq in London this June with online publishers Ibraaz. Global … Continue reading →

Tonight’s Six Pillars Radio Show: New Music from Iran III

The third in our series of new music from Iran. Tehran, 2013 a lively scene of ambient electronics, soundscape and experiment is spreading as musicians teach themselves software online, while tapping into sounds from abroad. On today’s show artists are Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Sohrab, Nima Pourkarimi (Umchunga), Hamed Kasaei and Hadi Bastani (iO). Produced and … Continue reading →

Today’s Six Pillars Show – Conflicted Memory

An interview with Alan Cristea Gallery director Helen Waters and artist Ninar Esber about the group show Conflicted Memory in London W1. Eight female artists from zones of conflict around the world from for example, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Lebanon feature in this singular show. The exhibition continues until June 2013. “Against a backdrop of … Continue reading →

This week’s Six Pillars – Peace From the Bottom of My Art

Is there such a thing as a justified war? “A bomb, sheathed in condoms, explodes in a childlike paradise.”(1) From Picasso to Chagall, the struggle for peace has been one that is constantly and necessarily represented in the arts; peace as something worth striving for, whose presence we must keenly endeavour to decipher in the … Continue reading →

Middle Eastern Arts and Culture? May Radio Broadcasts

All shows are broadcast Friday 19-30-20hrs, repeated the following Wednesday 13.30-14hrs May 3rd New Music from Iran II. Sound designer and composer Hadi Bastani (I o) samples the latest tracks by himself and his peers in Tehran who are part of the new electronic ambient scene in Iran. May 10th Peace From the Bottom of … Continue reading →