October 17 2019 – January 6 2020 – HKW, Berlin, exhibition “Love and Ethnology”
Love and Ethnology The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte) 2019, Oct 18, Fri — 2020, Jan 06, Mon The writer and ethnologist Hubert Fichte (1935–1986) is considered a poetic and documentarian realist precursor for new disciplines ...
August 20-23 2019 – Resound Conference, Aalborg
Research presentation by Gilles Aubry Info: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/resound
August 15 2019 – Mosaic Rooms, London, artist presentation and listening session
Listening session + discussion: “Encounters in Gendered Noise”, Thursday 15 August, 7pm, FREE Sound artist Gilles Aubry presents sound recordings and videos from his research in Morocco exploring gender separation, female representation and female resistance. Aubry will also reflects on his own encounters with whiteness and masculinity as part of his engagement with colonial archives, ...
July 26 – September 19 2019 – Bauhaus Weimar, “Radiophonic Spaces” exhibition
“The Gramophone Effect” (Aubry & Millis, audio 40′, 2017) is presented as part of the group exhibition “Radiophonic Spaces” at the Weimar Bauhaus. The same exhibition was presented at Tinguely Museum Basel and House of World Culture Berlin in 2018. More info here.
July 16 2019 – Live performance, Marseille, at Mujô
Gilles Aubry, « It’s not a hit, it’s a demand » (screening & performance) 19h30, Mujô, 18, rue d’Italie, 13006 Marseille ̴L̸a̴ ̸M̴e̶m̶b̴r̷a̷n̶e~ et MUJŌ s’allient pour présenter une soirée avec l’artiste sonore Gilles Aubry autour de sa recherche sur la matérialité du son et de l’écoute au Maroc. Au programme : la projection ...
July 9-15 2019 – “Salam Godzilla” at FID Marseille, International Film Festival
“Salam Godzilla” (Aubry, 2019, 40’35) will be screened as part of FID Marseille 2019. About the film: The cinema Salam in Agadir is one of the few buildings that survived the dramatic 1960 earthquake. The film revisits the disaster from various angles, including newsreels, seismic science, Moroccan cinema and a local poem interpreted by ...
May 26 2019 – At the Margins of Europa City, collective intervention in Berlin
Am Rand von EuropaCity – At the margins of Europa City A project by Yves Mettler and Alexis Hymann Wolff, in collaboration with Gilles Aubry & Scriptings. Europa City is a new, investor friendly neighbourhood growing silently ...
April 7 2019 – “Salam Godzilla”, Premiere screening at Visions du Réel International Film Festival, Nyon
“When the terrible 1960 earthquake hit Agadir, the local cinema Salam was showing Ishiro Honda and Terry O. Morse’s Godzilla, King of Monsters! Weirdly enough, it was also one of the few buildings to survive the ...
March 22 2019 – “Atlantic Ragagar”, sound performance at Le 18, Marrakech
Sound cooking with seaweed and pollution by Gilles Aubry & Younes Boundir. The performance combines interviews, soundscapes and scientific data related to industrial exploitation of red seaweed (aka “agar agar”) in Sidi Bouzid on the Atlantic coast in Morocco. Attentive to the effects of anthropogenic pollution on the fragile local ecosystem and to the ...
March 15-17 2019 – Sakhra Encounters in Moulay Bouchta, Morocco
“Sakhra” Art encounter and exhibition in Moulay Bouchta al Khamar, Morocco, 15-17 March 2019 Initiated by Abdeljalil Saouli, Gilles Aubry & Carlos Perez Marin, the event explores the concept of environmental cohabitation in the rural context of Moulay Bouchta, a village situated north of Fès in Morocco, via local vernacular architecture, sound artistic experiments ...