Alessandra Ciucci
Performing the ḥrig: Music, Sound, and Undocumented Migration across the Mediterranean (Morocco–Italy)

“L-ḥarraga” is a song that narrates the voyage and the experience of undocumented migration that ends with the tragic death of a young Moroccan man crossing the Mediterranean. This talk explores “L-ḥarraga” as a sonorous account of a hazardous voyage, through which it is possible to reflect on burning political questions concerning a geocultural zone where the historically determined differences between North and South are increasingly acute: the Mediterranean.

Alessandra Ciucci is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies and assistant professor in the Department of Music at Columbia University.

Invernomuto (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi)
Black Med

Black Med is a platform initiated by Invernomuto for Manifesta 12: The Planetary Garden. The Mediterranean Sea, once understood as a fluid entity aiding the formation of networks and exchange, is now the scenario of a humanitarian crisis and heated geopolitical dispute. This ever-problematizing milieu is the battlefield for increasingly complex identities; the sonic trails emerging from the Mediterranean, as the scholar Iain Chambers puts it, thus “resist representation and propose an affective economy … that is intrinsically diasporic.” For this talk Invernomuto will browse through a selection of musical instances that constituted the research around Black Med so far. Starting from the genesis of the project in Palermo, the talk will also present a series of visual and sonic references to frame the research the duo will undertake in the upcoming months of residency at AAR.

The Milan-based Invernomuto (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi) are the Cy Twombly Italian Fellows in Visual Arts.

The shoptalks will be held in English.