Radio broadcast: Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making, episode 3

I am of water, of water are you is the third episode of Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making, initiated in April, during Dutch Art Institute’s confluence in Essaouira, Morocco. Here, we gathered to reason around water as an ever-present, essential resource that implies questions of accessibility, land dispossession, and climate crisis, to foster communal strategies of resilience amidst systems of oppression and supremacy. Each story is carried by sounds of field recordings, original productions, traditional songs, and contemporary compositions.

In thinking, and feeling, through our respective geographies, our solidarity with Palestine remains at the core of our practice. Yet again, this podcast intertwines and amplifies struggles across places and seas. I am of water, of water are you includes sonic works by Palestinian and Lebanese artists Jawaher Shofani, Maya al Khaldi, Sary Moussa and Charbel Haber, acting as intermissions and a closure to our sonic offering.

The podcasts are formed in chapters corresponding to our peer-to-peer learning around Land, Housing and Out/Institution, each time seeking ways to question ourselves by listening to the varied and polyrhythmic offerings from the people and places we encounter. In this process of place-making, we explore our practices and transmit through the broadcasting platform and extended community of Radio Alhara.

Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy unfolding throughout 2024. Through the group’s monthly encounters, five podcasts will share the harvest of each iteration with attuned overarching themes as departure points. This third episode was initiated in Essaouira, Morocco, in April 2024.

Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is a nomadic accredited MA program landing in various locations and for seven times (confluences) per academic year with the student body and crew. The study groups, which last the full academic year, are one of the pillars of its program and are carefully composed of and conducted by collaborations with an art institution, in this case de Appel in Amsterdam.

Listen to the radio broadcast on Thursday 24 October, 5pm CET on Radio Alhara!