JAY AFRISANDO: LISTENING WITH ALL SENSES

12.09.2024 / 19:00 – 22:00
With Jay Afrisando

Composer and multimedia artist, Jay Afrisando is completing the 2024 music & sound fellow cohort. Originally from Indonesia, he has arrived at Berlin from the US where he has been working as Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His works include interactive installations, music-theater, and creative filmmaking, and he entices audiences into sensory richness by simply, radically, including it.

To introduce his practice to local scenes and future collaborators, Jay Afrisando is inviting to a pop-up exhibition and artist talk at daadgalerie, featuring works centering on aural diversity, disability, and access as creative sources that investigate and highlight humans’ hearing-listening diversity. The artist talk will be moderated by Kate Brehme, co-founder of Berlinklusion (Network for Accessibility in Art and Culture).

7:00 pm: exhibition opening
7:30 Uhr: artist talk, followed by discussion, start in time due to live stream

daadgalerie, Oranienstr. 161, 10161 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Accessibility
Venue/Stream
The event will take place on the second floor of the daadgalerie and will be streamed live via a zoom webinar. Online audience will have the possibility to write questions in the comment section but won’t be able to speak. You don’t need to register for the online event. For accessibility information on zoom please follow the advice on their website: https://www.zoom.com/en/accessibility/

Times and admission:
The event will start in time due to the live stream.
If required, we can offer you earlier admission from 6:45 pm so that you can familiarize yourself with the surroundings and choose your seat. Please register for this at borsche.berlin@daad.de.

Admission is free.
Late admission after the start of the event is possible. The duration of the event is approx. 90 minutes. There will be a break of approx. 20 minutes during the event.
If you feel any Covid-like symptoms, please consider to stay home and follow the live stream.

Seating & sensory stimuli:
There will be various forms of seatings: chairs with backrests and benches without backrests, some cushions for the chairs as well as bean bags.

The event tends to have a moderate sound volume. The event room is darkened/dark with projection light and colorful ambient light settings. The venue is air conditioned, but once filled with a lot of people it will still get warm. The event is not immersive. The event takes place in a spacious room.

Event type:
The event is planned as an Artist Presentation & Talk. This means that the evening will take place in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. You are free to move around, leave and come back whenever you like. The event is planned to be sensory-friendly. This means that care is taken to reduce strong sensory stimuli to create a place that is as pleasant as possible for everyone. Loud noises and intense lighting effects are avoided.
Non-alcoholic drinks and alcoholic drinks (beer & wine) will be served free of charge.

There will be a quiet room at the back of the upper floor to which you can retreat if necessary – it is accessible without steps.

Language:
The event will be held in English. We’ve been trying hard to find simultaneous translation into German Sign Language (DGS), but didn’t manage unfortunately. We will video record the event and upload a translated DGS version as soon as possible.

Contact persons:
If you have any further questions about accessibility, please email or call Dahlia Borsche: borsche.berlin@daad.de / 030-20220828.
If you have any questions or require assistance on site, please contact the admission staff.

Photo: Diana Pfammatter