Beyond 1932 Residency: Kamilya Jubran + Werner Hasler
As part of the final Beyond 1932 Residency, Kamilya Jubran and long-time collaborator Werner Hasler will perform their third studio album و WA (Arabic for ‘and’). Hinging on a practice of interrogating their hearing and their expression, their research and their desire, the duo draw a universe where everything seems possible. Sound becomes a unison of stamps, cultures completing each other, sentences colliding with each other, modes and languages meeting each other while communicating respective roots and presents through artistic conversation.
Tickets (£12/£10/£6) via Cafe OTO.
The residency series is organised Dr Rim Irscheid, practice-led researcher at King’s College London. The Beyond 1932 project is funded by the EPSRC via the UKRI/EC HE Guarantee ERC scheme (funder Award Reference: EP/X022749/1).
The (De)Colonial Legacy of the 1932 Cairo Congress: Panel Discussion with Kamilya Jubran, Hazem Jamjoum, Tarek Beshir and Gülçin Özkişi
The panel brings together musicians, scholars and archivists to reflect on the legacy of the 1932 Cairo Congress from a contemporary MENA perspective. Moderated by Rim Irscheid, panelists Kamilya Jubran, Hazem Jamjoum, Tarik Beshir and Gülcin Özkişi discuss how the Congress continues to shape ideas of authenticity, notation, preservation, and musical modernity today. Drawing on creative practice and research, the panel will explore the political, colonial, and archival dimensions of this historic gathering and its ongoing impact on music-making and knowledge production in the region. The panel takes place on Thursday 9 April, 4–5.30pm in the Pyramid Room at King’s College London (War Studies Department), followed by a drinks reception.
The event is free and open to all, registration is required (link will be shared soon).
The panel discussion is part of the Beyond 1932 Artist-in-Residence Programme at King’s College London, organised by Dr Rim Irscheid. The Beyond 1932 project is funded by the EPSRC via the UKRI/EC HE Guarantee ERC scheme (funder Award Reference: EP/X022749/1).
Open City Documentary Festival Micro-Course | Sound, Ethnography & Archive (In-Person)
This micro-course explores the role of sound in challenging how we remember, archive, and exhibit micro-histories.
Together, the cohort will explore the theoretical, ethnographic and arts-based approaches to sonic archiving. Participants will develop skills to discuss, record and display alternative archives that challenge colonial forms of knowledge production. Learn theories around archives and counter-archives, across archival art and ethnography, through collaborative discussions and workshops.
This course will be delivered in person at UCL East, Stratford, London. It is open to all levels of experience.
Booking until 10 April 2026 via Open City Documentary Festival.
Beyond 1932 Residency: Bint Mbareh
Bint Mbareh has spent the past two years, since being invited to participate in the Beyond 1932 Residency, playing the buzuq a little bit almost every day – the results of this mundane practice will be shown during the performance. Rooted in her practice on the buzuq, her performance unfolds in two parts: a solo set developed through small daily acts during the Beyond 1932 residency, followed by a participatory choir session.
Doors: 6pm (event starts 7pm).
Tickets are free but registration required via Ticket Taylor.
Archives of Feeling: Socially Engaged Archival Art and the Palestine Solidarity Movement in the UK
What is the role of art in social justice movements? In this performance-based talk, ethnomusicologist, curator and multidisciplinary artist Rim Irscheid will discuss her recent textile installation Mapping Resistance (2025). Guided by ethnographic research into diaspora archival art that makes space for speculative histories, the talk will look into the role of ‘feeling’ in guiding institutional critique in the arts. Looking at creative responses to institutional silencing in contemporary sound and media art from the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region, imaginations of a collective affect are considered crucial in shaping the experiences and outcomes of socially engaged art practices.
Talk and presentation of Sound Installation Mapping Resistance (2025) with collaborator Matt Johnson.
Public Lecture: Remembering Otherwise: Artist-Led Archival Practices in SWANA Sound & Media Art
The Music Research Seminars are hosted by the Department of Performing Arts at City St George’s, University of London and SPARC research centre (Sound Practice and Research at City St George’s). They bring together world-leading artists, practitioners, and scholars in the broad fields of music and sound.
Seminars are open to the public in person and online. Please register to attend and receive a Zoom link.
Mapping Resistance @SenseScapes (London Design Festival)
Mapping Resistance is a participatory sound installation combining sewn fabric with magnetic, conductive panels. Visitors are invited to interact with a textile map of London’s boroughs, charting where acts of resistance have succeeded and where they have failed. By placing coloured magnets on the fabric map - mounted on a magnetic wall panel - participants trigger changes in sound by altering the magnetic field which is converted to synthesised noise. The more magnets attached to the board, the greater the harmony and clarity of the soundscape. Over time, these contributions create a living archive of resistance, bringing together stories from the ground across the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK.
The installation asks visitors to reflect: Which places feel safe? Which should be avoided? The collective act of marking, warning, and remembering transforms the map into both a record and a gathering space of Palestinian communities and allies, revealing where welcome is found, and where community takes root.
The installation was commissioned by Adan Abu Dalu and will be exhibited as part of the group exhibition SenseScapes at London Design Festival 2025.