Anosmia - 43'37" Aurélie Lierman (BE/RW)

“Anosmia” is a reflection on the absurd fact that a tiny part of the body, the nose, played a key role in the Rwandan Genocide (1994). In the early 90’s Hutu extremists started broadcasting hate messages via public radio, against Tutsi people. Millions of Hutu moderates got manipulated and in April ‘94 the whole propaganda machinery escalated in a bloody civil war. Four months long a whole nation was haunting ‘the enemy’, while often the enemy had to be found within oneself or one’s relatives. Distinguishing a ‘real Tutsi’ from a ‘real Hutu’ is anyhow difficult due to intermarriage. So during this period of war and terror tough decisions had to be made, often in no time: e.g. What if you were married to a Tutsi and had children with ‘enemy blood’? Back in ‘94 brutal killings within one family or household were countless! The length of a nose was decisive to classify the enemy. Even if your passport said that you were ‘Hutu’, if you had a long and thin nose you were considered a Tutsi, so you’d had to hide or run for your life. Nowadays it is by law forbidden to use the word Tutsi or Hutu.

Original Language(s): Kinyarwanda, English, French

Producer name: Aurélie Lierman (independent)

Additional Credits:

text: ‘Politics of the nose’ by David Mwambari

prepared piano: Momoko Noguchi, Aurélie Lierman

(speaking) trombone: Francisco Jose Couto

speaking and singing voice: Aurélie Lierman

mixing: www.mphomestudio.com

fieldrecording, analogue electronics, editing, composition: Aurélie Lierman


Anosmia is part of the ‘Fearless Radio’ project and was commissioned by Saout Radio (Morocco) for the “Curated By” -series of Kunstradio (ÖRF, Radio 1, Austria)

Curatoral statement -->

www.saout-radio.com/pdf/Fearless_Radio.pdf

Country of Production: Rwanda/Belgium

Length in minutes: 43,37 minutes


- February 24th 2014 worldpremiere of Anosmia in a live listening session organised by Kunstradio (Wien) at

Im Klangtheater (ÖRF)
Argentinierstr 30A 
1040 Wien
Austria

- March 2nd 2014

On air presentation of Anosmia

at ÖRF, Radio 1, Kunstradio, Austria

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