'No Border'
Project by Christian Picciotto, commissioned by Manifesta 12 Education
Palermo, 2017
Lyrics: students of ICS Politeama 
(c) Manifesta 12 Palermo
www.manifesta12.org/schools-in-tandem

'No Border' is the song written and performed by the students of Politema school in Palermo. The project was developed and led by Christian Picciotto, Palermo-based rapper and educator, in the framework of "Schools in Tandem", a programme devised by Manifesta 12 Education Department that involved eight local schools in four thematic tandems.  

Several years ago, as a result of the National education reform, two schools of Palermo - Federico II school in Borgo Vecchio and Archimede school in Politeama - have been united under ICS Politeama. While being close to each other geographically these two schools find themselves in two very different social realities. This project uses creative writing, storytelling and rap language to inspire narration and motivate the encounter between children belonging to different schools and social contexts. 

'No Borders' has been performed by the students at Notte Bianca della Scuola (May 26, 2017) and at BeatFull Festival (September 2, 2017).

NO BORDER by Manifesta 12 Education and C. Picciotto

Imagine you are in a museum:  What do you hear?
Bhavisha Panchia (Nothing to Commit Records) is a sound piece presented during TRACING FRACTURES – ACROSS LISTENING, MOVEMENT, RESTITUTION AND REPAIR, part of the public programme of "Traits d'union.s" of Manifesta 13 Marseille.

It is an audio collage that weaves together disparate musical tracks, extracts of interviews, speeches and audio notes as listening provocations that speak to the affective resonances of dislocation and dispossession of land, people and (im)material culture.

Can we listen to systems of colonial modernity and its extractive and accumulative logics? The museum speaks with a voice filled with the grain of a quiet authority; so do the institutions that care for fragile archives. How can we listen to the acoustic impossibilities of objects housed in these institutions? Whose voices are we listening to as we move through a museum? Whose voice do we hear when we encounter these objects and archives?  

Final mix: 344 Studios, Sudhir Misra

Imagine you are in a museum:  What do you hear? Bhavisha Panchia (Nothing to Commit Records)

Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, changes its location every two years. Manifesta 12 was hosted in Palermo, Italy. Manifesta 13 is taking place in Marseille, France, from 28.08 to 29.11.2020 (new dates)
Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography. This includes innovations in curatorial practices, exhibition models and education. Each Manifesta biennial aims to investigate and reflect on emerging developments in contemporary art, set within a European context. In doing so, we present local, national and international audiences with new aspects and forms of artistic expression.

Previous editions: 

Rotterdam (1996), Luxembourg (1998), Ljubljana (2000), Frankfurt (2002), San Sebastian (2004), Nicosia (2006 - cancelled), Trentino-South Tyrol (2008), Murcia in dialogue with northern Africa (2010), Genk, Limburg, Belgium (2012), St. Petersburg (2014) hosted by the State Hermitage Museum,  Zurich, Switzerland (2016), Palermo, Italy (2018), Marseille, France (2020), Prishtina, Kosovo (2022).

Imagine you are in a museum: What do you hear? Bhavisha Panchia (Nothing to Commit Records)

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