Biennial Bytes

Biennial Bytes

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EP06: Citra Sasmita x Alia Swastika

Alia Swastika and Citra Sasmita talk about her collaboration with Kamasan maestra Mangku Muriati for their SB16 project 'Timur Merah Project XV: Poetry of the Sea,Vow of the Sun' (2024), unravelling female figures and narratives in Balinese history and mythology. They reinterpret ...  Show more

EP05: Singing Wells x Natasha Ginwala

Natasha Ginwala and Tabu Osusa, Nairobi-based producer, composer and founder of Singing Wells Project, dive into the group’s decolonial mission to platform and preserve East African music. Committed to safeguarding cultural heritage and sound-based storytelling traditions, they t ...  Show more

EP04: Yhonnie Scarce x Megan Tamati-Quennell

Megan Tamati-Quennell and artist Yhonnie Scarce shed light on the historical context of nuclear testing on Aboriginal lands in Australia. Her installation Orford Ness (2022) comprises 1000 hand-blown glass yams, which are the food of Scarce’s people. Commissioned for SB16, Operat ...  Show more

EP03: Joe Namy x Zeynep Öz

Zeynep Öz speaks with artist, composer and educator Joe Namy about his sound installations that use samples from loud sound systems in cars, glitchy computer-generated noises and sounds converted from the molecular data of plants. His work for SB16 titled Dub Plants is inspired b ...  Show more

EP02: Bint Mbareh x Amal Khalaf

Amal Khalaf speaks with artist and sound researcher Bint Mbareh about her work around songs of resistance in relation to land and water sovereignty in Palestine. Learn more about Bint Mbareh’s SB16 project, What’s Left? (2025), where she works with a choir in Sharjah on songs of ...  Show more