Berlin · Festival · Curation

DisORIENTation

The title says it all: anyone who hears “Orient” and expects camels is meant to lose their bearings.

Bright industrial hall with concrete columns, two large speaker stacks and covered instruments between them.

Generated mood images — not photographs of the programmes or people named here.

DisORIENTation starts where most world music programmes stop: at the question of who actually decides how a region is supposed to sound. Instead of illustrating an origin, the festival shows positions — artists who come out of a tradition and do something with it that nobody has heard yet.

Curatorially this is the most demanding case. You work against an expectation the audience brings with them, and you still have to take it seriously — otherwise the hall stays empty. The way there runs through programme sequences that begin where people are and then lead further than they would have gone themselves.

For venues with a contemporary profile this is the most interesting form of collaboration: not a guest performance, but a statement.

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