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Title: 
Radio show consonni. Speech sound
Programme: 
Kolektibo egoiliarrak programa (Amphytrion), 2018-2019
Date: 
31-05-2018
Place: 
Atrium of Cultures, floor 0
Author(s): 
consonni
Speaker(s): 
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
consonni
Type: 
Podcast
Tags: 
Art and literature
Butler, Octavia E.‏ | Speech sounds
Contemporary art
Literature
Summary: 
Speech Sounds is the title of a science fiction story by Octavia E. Butler, who won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best short story and for the first time in 1984. The story is about an illness which suddenly affects the ability to speak and/or read, write and reason. In a defeated civilisation, Butler tells the story of Rye, a woman who tries to cross the 20 miles to Pasadena among people whose only reliable form of communication is body language. We have invited different people to read, listen, interpret, analyse, draw, sing and dance this chilling inspirational text by a must-read author for feminist and afrofuturism science fiction within the context of feminism, anthropology, psychology, sociology, radio theatre, berstolaritza (Basque improvised poetry), activism, dance, music, sign language, and performance, etc.
Description: 
Speech Sound is consonni’s new Radio Show as the resident collective under the Amphitryon residency programme. However, and above all, it is the title of a science fiction story by Octavia E. Butler, who won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best short story and for the first time in 1984. The story is about an illness which suddenly affects the ability to speak and/or read, write and reason. In a defeated civilisation, Butler tells the story of Rye, a woman who tries to cross the 20 miles to Pasadena among people whose only reliable form of communication is body language. We have invited different people to read, listen, interpret, analyse, draw, sing and dance this chilling inspirational text by a must-read author for feminist and afrofuturism science fiction within the context of feminism, anthropology, psychology, sociology, radio theatre, berstolaritza (Basque improvised poetry), activism, dance, music, sign language, and performance, etc. We will count on the presence of Alicia San Juan, Miguel Deza, Stel García, Chusé Fernandez, Helen Torres, Carla Bataller, Iñaki Martínez de Albeniz, Nerea Ibarzabal, Irantzu Varela, Hilaria Vianeke, Pablo Gallo, Tunipanea, Bea Fernández, Eulàlia Bergadà, Marc Naya, Horman Poster collective, MBaye Sene, Myriam Petralanda and Okkre (with Eomac).
Related activities: 
consonni radio with Az
Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms (2018)
Appears in Collections:
AZ Irratia - Contemporary culture