{"id":74909,"date":"2023-03-15T14:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/termin\/other-en\/das-archiv-auflegen-74909\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T08:22:45","slug":"das-archiv-auflegen","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/discourse\/das-archiv-auflegen-74909\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting on the Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Humboldt Forum houses an important archive with historical sound recordings and a chequered history – the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1900, it has been part of the current Ethnological Museum since 1934. Its approximately 16,000 sound recordings on Edison wax cylinders and further recordings on tape and new media represent a fascinating historical recording practice and an impressive wealth of sounds from around the world, but like other holdings in the museum, reflect a predominantly colonial mode of collecting. During the First and Second World Wars, many recordings were made under force in German POW camps.<\/p>\n

How does one deal with such an archive today? Can it be more than historical source material? How can it be made to sound without falling into the traps of exoticism, appropriation or cultural comparison? How do artists deal with it?<\/p>\n

Sound artist Elsa M’Bala works with field recordings and interviews in her live podcasts and reinterprets historical recordings. With colleagues from the Phonogrammm-Archiv Maurice Mengel and Albrecht Wiedmann, she talks about her work with historical sound recordings, followed by a DJ set.<\/p>\n

The talk will be in german<\/em><\/p>\n

Schedule: 5pm DJ Set<\/p>\n

5.30pm-6:15pm Talk<\/p>\n

6:15-8pm DJ Set<\/p>\n

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