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Our practice-led research engages Networked Music Performance as a methodology of sonic cyberfeminisms. Since the project has excavated specificity of place mediated by the materiality of internet musicking between Cairo, Istanbul, Beirut and Europe, which acts as a metaphor for precarious lives; from traumatic events to structural relations of unequal access to technology, skills, and infrastructures.

In the last year, two members have relocated from the Middle East to Germany. This performance lecture explores how diasporic memories, trauma, belonging and ideas of home are conveyed and received through improvised musicking across geographical distances. The inhabiting of speculative spaces of unknowing act as localised sonic conduits to sound out these positionings, rather than seek definitions of subjectivities.

Online performance lecture. This paper examines the relationship between sound and emancipatory politics with a focus on the political economy of music, labour and caste in India. I analyse musicianship central to an anti-caste revolt in modern western India to understand the evolution of a cultural movement.

Today, the evolution and the dynamic status of hereditary musicianship symbolises the history of a caste-mandated service, which is at the same time labour undertaken within current market conditions, whether in the context of the music industry, ritual performance, activist work or as art.

Through an examination of genres such as bhimgeet , buddhageet , vidrohi shahiri jalsa , and saamna , I look at the ways in which musicians navigate professionalisation, musical production, activism and enable an anti-caste spirit, when the market has appropriated both music and political action.

In navigating these spheres, actors produce accounts of musico-political authenticity e. Dr Rasika Ajotikar is a Junior Professor at the Institute of Music and Musicology and at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. She was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Development Studies at SOAS.

As an ethnomusicologist, her research examines issues of labour as they relate to caste to look at how musicianship as a service has evolved into a performance art in modern India. Her work with activists and musicians in anti-caste spheres in contemporary western India explores the links between emancipatory politics and art, particularly music or sound, and at the same time, focusing on issues of citizenship and state repression.

Dr Ajotikar is also a singer trained in the North Indian classical music tradition. She has been experimenting with various genres of music and along with her research, collaborating on several projects with musicians from an anti-caste collective in Maharashtra. Tracing the affinities between sound studies, performance studies, visual culture, and affect theory, this paper visually and aesthetically analyzes two music videos by Tamil-Swiss singer-songwriter Priya Ragu.

In what ways does she embody and extend the interdiscursive and transnational potentialities of her music by troubling the categories of language, gender, nation-state, and cultural inheritance s? And finally, what might her music videos illuminate about sonic belonging through the realm of the visual, thereby re defining what the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora sounds like?

Framed as a paper presentation, this essay argues that Ragu mediates a larger cultural and sociopolitical conversation on how South Asian female artists in the diaspora embody desire and pleasure in their performance practice to challenge structures of gender, power, and capital.

She is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. As part of her artistic practice, Archita works with oral histories to ponder questions of be longing, memory, love, and loss. In her research, Archita studies the performance of desire and pleasure across music, performance art, visual culture, and popular media in the South Asian diaspora.

By centering the fleshiness of sound, her work explores the ways in which minoritarian subjects perform refusal. Her areas of research include sound studies, affect theory, queer of color critique, diaspora studies, and minoritarian performance theory. Archita holds a B.

The statement that labour movement is on its historic low has become a common statement across political spectrum.

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Though not the loudest, a cultural argument has been one of the widespread to address this phenomenon — that the communal experience of the working class, from trade unions activities, benefit societies, to cultural institutions and shared urban quarters, have all but disappeared.

Finally, I will discuss how we can reflect these lessons to current music practices in the organizing on the left. Atanasovski was engaged as a fellow of international research projects funded by Swiss Science Foundation and he has received research scholarships from the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research.

His articles have appeared in Southeastern Europe, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Südosteuropa, Musicological Annual, etc. He has published two books, Mapiranje Stare Srbije in Serbian, trans.