Bhavisha Panchia

Join us for Imagine you’re in a museum. What do you hear?, sound work by Bhavisha Panchia @future_laxmi . A curatorial and sonic practice that asks us to listen back in order to listen forward. Imagine you’re in a museum.What do you hear? 2020 Sound work, 33 min. Imagine you’re in a museum. What do you hear? is an audio collage that weaves together disparate musical tracks, extracts of interviews, speeches and audio notes as listening provocations that speak to the affective resonances of dislocation and dispossession of land, people and (im)material culture. Bhavisha Panchia is a curator and writer. Her curatorial and written work centres on the social, cultural and ideological signification of sound and music in contemporary culture. With an interest in auditory media’s relationship to geopolitical paradigms, anti/postcolonial discourses and imperial histories, she considers how we can critically listen back to listen forward. She is the founder of Nothing to Commit Records, a label and publishing platform committed to the production and expansion of knowledge related to contemporary art and sound within and across the global South. Her writings have been published in books, journals and exhibition catalogues. Another Gathering: The Beauty We Inherit is organised by Museum de Fundatie and the Research Centre for Material Culture @defundatie @wereldmuseum.leiden Full day program here : https://www.materialculture.nl/en/events/another-gathering-beauty-we-inherit

Curator Bhavisha Panchia reflects on Notes from Below, a multi-modal program comprising an exhibition at ACUD Galerie, Berlin (2023) and a podcast series on Parastatal (2025). Through the work of Constanza Piña, Ana Paula Santana, Sara Ouhaddou, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, and Bianca Baldi, this essay examines how “listening beneath the surface” can operate as a method of resistance, recuperation, and the redistribution of knowledge.  Read now on http://parastatal.art @future_laxmi #notesfrombelow Bhavisha Panchia is a curator and writer of contemporary art. Her curatorial and written work centres on the social, cultural, and ideological signification of sound and music in contemporary culture. Photo by Victoria Tomaschko

"Older than the tongues that named me", a new sound episode on parastatal.art. Bianca Baldi is an artist whose work explores history, meaning, and knowledge production, often through narrative, fiction, and the reconfiguration of historical contexts and events. In conversation with Bhavisha Panchia, Baldi speaks about her relationship to writing and sound, the documentary image, and narrative. She reflects on how she navigates personal and collective histories of land, colonial exploitation, and belonging through sound and image, temporal constructions, and the embodied ‘voice’ of a sycamore tree. Listen now http://parastatal.art @bianca_baldi @future_laxmi #notesfrombelow

Recap of 𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗦, a 24-hour retrospective exhibition of text and video works by American artist Tony Cokes. Alongside with DJ sets and live performances by Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti), Antye Greie-Ripatti aka “AGF”, Islaja, and Cucina Povera, talks, DIY t-shirt-printing workshop, and interventions. Thank you to everyone involved in making this major and memorable event happen. On 12th September for 24 hours the entirety of Tony Cokes film works spanning nearly four decades was presented across the interior and exterior of Amos Rex and its surrounding sites. The program transformed the museum’s cinema, passageways, facade, and the surrounding city space of Lasipalatsi Square into a dynamic arena for screenings, performances, and interventions. Co-commisioned alongside the retrospective exhibition and live performances by Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) and an assembly of Finland-based musicians under the rubric Sonic Wilderness Remix: Antye Greie-Ripatti aka “AGF”, Islaja, and Cucina Povera. Alongside this there was an Artist Talk with Tony Cokes in conversation with Paul O’Neill and Bavisha Panchia, moderated by Kieran Long and a Pop Up Silkscreen T-shirt Printing run by Kalasataman Seripaja The event ran for 24 hours only – 6 am on 12 September to 6 am on 13 September. Since the late 1980s, Tony Cokes has redefined media by interweaving textual, musical, and visual elements. Through his distinctive process of cutting, assembling, and rearranging fragments of history—archival footage, news broadcasts, political speeches, pop and club culture, theoretical texts, and conversations—Cokes constructs an incisive critique of media, power, and anti-Blackness, as well as consumerism and contemporary political discourse. 24 HOURS WITH TONY COKES was curated by PUBLICS with Bhavisha Panchia, in partnership with Amos Rex. Credit: Stills: Noora Nilsén / Amos Rex @amoskonst @cokes_tony @future_laxmi @pauloneillp @publicsfi PUBLICS partners with @saastamoinenfoundation 2023-2028

New Notes from below episode on parastatal.art ! Constanza Piña speaks about her work as Corazón de Robota, her DIY practice of building instruments and synthesizers, and her long-term installation and performance project Khipu / Electrotextile Pre-Hispanic Computer. + live excerpt of her Bar Neun perfomance on 17.9.2025. Listen now http://parastatal.art Parastatal is a research platform for critical sound practice and sound art curation. @corazonderobota Interview by @future_laxmi #notesfrombelow

🌟TOMORROW🌟 Join us for 𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗦, a 24-hour programme and retrospective exhibition featuring video works by American artist Tony Cokes. Alongside with DJ sets and live performances by Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti), Antye Greie-Ripatti aka “AGF”, Islaja, and Cucina Povera, talks, DIY t-shirt-printing workshop, and interventions. Open and free for all! Amos Rex & Lasipalatsi Square 12 September 6.00am – 13 September 6.00am 📍Bio Rex 11.00 - 20.00 Bio Rex Screening 11.00 - 17.00 Pop Up Silkscreen T-shirt Printing - bring your t-shirt to print on! 15.30 - 17.30 Solo Performance: Sonic Wilderness with Islaja, AGF & Cucina Povera 17.30 - 18.30 Artist Talk: Tony Cokes, Paul O’Neill and Bavisha Panchia, moderated by Kieran Long 📍Lasipalatsi Square, Kulttuurikasarmi outside stage 18:45 - 19:45 Live Performance: Sonic Wilderness Remix, AGF, Isaja and Cucina Povera 20.00 - 22:00 Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) For 24 hours only the entirety of Tony Cokes film works spanning nearly four decades will be presented across the interior and exterior of Amos Rex and its surrounding sites. The program transforms the museum’s cinema, passageways, facade, and the surrounding city space of Lasipalatsi Square into a dynamic arena for screenings, performances, and interventions. Since the late 1980s, Tony Cokes has redefined media by interweaving textual, musical, and visual elements. Through his distinctive process of cutting, assembling, and rearranging fragments of history—archival footage, news broadcasts, political speeches, pop and club culture, theoretical texts, and conversations—Cokes constructs an incisive critique of media, power, and anti-Blackness, as well as consumerism and contemporary political discourse. 24 HOURS WITH TONY COKES is curated by PUBLICS with Bhavisha Panchia, in partnership with Amos Rex. Credit: Stills: Tony Cokes, Fade to Black, 1990 (still). Video, color, sound. 32:51 minutes. Courtesy the artist, Greene Naftali, New York, FelixGaudlitz, Vienna, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. Read more about tomorrow at www.amosrex.fi/en/exhibitions/24-hours-with-tony-cokes

Mark your calendars! Just over a week to go… 𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗦, a 24-hour programme and retrospective exhibition featuring video works by American artist Tony Cokes, live performances by Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) and an assembly of Finland-based musicians under the rubric Sonic Wilderness Remix: Antye Greie-Ripatti aka “AGF”, Islaja, and Cucina Povera. The event runs for 24 hours only – 6 am on 12 September to 6 am on 13 September. Free and open for all! 📍Bio Rex 11.00 - 20.00 Bio Rex Screening 11.00 - 17.00 Pop Up Silkscreen T-shirt Printing -𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁-𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻! 15.30 - 17.30 Solo Performance: Sonic Wilderness with Islaja, AGF & Cucina Povera 17.30 - 18.30 Artist Talk: Tony Cokes, Paul O’Neill and Bavisha Panchia, moderated by Kieran Long 📍Lasipalatsi Square, Kulttuurikasarmi outside stage 18:45 - 19:45 Live Performance: Sonic Wilderness Remix, AGF, Isaja and Cucina Povera 20.00 - 22:00 Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) Intro to the artist performers: Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) – an audio sculptress, sound artist & curator/facilitator, poem producer & intersectional feminist networker. Islaja (Merja Kokkonen) – a composer, performer and recording artist who after living and working in Berlin for over a decade, is now in 2024 permanently back in Helsinki Finland. Cucina Povera – the solo project of Karelian-Luxembourgish medic and composer Maria Rossi, focusing on the marginal and the observational. Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) is a pioneering sound artist, musician and sonic composer whose work defies any specific musical genre. He has been an influential point of reference for Tony Cokes. Image Captions: 1) Tony Cokes, Fade to Black, 1990 (still). Video, color, sound. 32:51 minutes. Courtesy the artist, GreeneNaftali, New York, Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. 2) Islaja by Juho Liukkonen 3) AGF by Aino Vaaranen 4) Cucina Povera by Arne Schramm 5)Sasu Ripatti by Antye Greie-Ripatti 24 HOURS WITH TONY COKES Curated by PUBLICS with Bhavisha Panchia, in partnership with Amos Rex. #sasuripatti #vladislavdelay

Subterranean Changes Live Vol. 2, coming up on Wednesday, 17 September at @bar_neun Berlin! BAR NEUN, Pücklerstr. 34, 10997 Berlin Door 20h30, Start 21h. 𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰 – Live set Corazón de Robota - Live set Ondula - DJ set @hexorcismos @corazonderobota @_ondula Subterranean Changes is a live music series by Parastatal highlighting the convergence of inherited and experimental music forms. https://parastatal.art This edition is co-curated by @future_laxmi #subterraneanchanges #experimentalmusic #berlinberlin

24 HOURS WITH TONY COKES, starting 6am September 12th as a 24-hour programme and retrospective exhibition featuring all video works by American artist Tony Cokes, alongside live performances by Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) and an assembly of Finland-based musicians under the rubric Sonic Wilderness Remix: Antye Greie-Ripatti aka “AGF”, Islaja, and Cucina Povera. Sonic Wilderness Assembly have been invited to perform live together for their Finnish premier, having previously gathered in New York for the first time as part of Performa 2023 in New York. Sonic Wilderness Assembly will perform in a dedicated event as individual artists and as a collaborative sonic act. Through a dialogical process, they create movements and responsive interconnections across their works, interpreting and intertwining them with field recordings from Finland. Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti) will perform a newly commissioned live musical score at Lasipalatsi Square, combining his performance with a screening of Tony Cokes’ video works on the Amos Rex outside wall offering a unique and direct sonic response to the artworks. Credits, 1-Tony Cokes, Some Munich Moments 1937–1972, 2022 (still). Two-channel HD video, color, sound. Channel I: 54 minutes; Channel II: 74 minutes. Courtesy the artist, Greene Naftali, New York, Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. 2-AGF by AinoVaaranen, 2021. 3-Cucina Povera by Sukaina Kubba. 4-Islaja by Walter Wlodarczyk, 2023. 5-Sasu Ripatti by Antye Greie-Ripatti 24 HOURS WITH TONY COKES Curated by PUBLICS with Bhavisha Panchia, in partnership with Amos Rex. Full schedule and times of performances see here:- https://amosrex.fi/en/exhibitions/24-hours-with-tony-cokes/ @amoskonst @cokes_tony @future_laxmi

New Notes from below episode on parastatal! Bhavisha Panchia speaks to Simnikiwe Buhlungu about her working with sound, how knowledge is moved, recreated, translated and recomposed. She talks about the relationship between the aural and the ocular, listening practices, and some past projects. Listen now on parastatal.art NFB episodes now also available on Apple Podcast and Castopod. Notes from Below asks for us to look and listen closer to the cultural and epistemic transfers that occur on micro and macro levels, in personal and communal spaces. @future_laxmi @simnikiwebuhlungu #soundart #notesfrombelow

Amos Rex and PUBLICS present rare and unique 𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗦, a 24-hour programme & retrospective exhibition featuring video works by American artist, Tony Cokes, alongside live performances by Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti), and an assembly of Finland- based musicians under the rubric Sonic Wilderness Remix; Antye Greie-Ripatti aka “AGF”, Islaja, and Cucina Povera. Event runs for 24 hours only – from 6 am on 12 September to 6 am on 13 September. 📍𝗕𝗶𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝘅 𝟭𝟭.𝟬𝟬 - 𝟮𝟬.𝟬𝟬 𝗕𝗶𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝘅 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟭𝟭.𝟬𝟬 - 𝟭𝟳.𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗼𝗽 𝗨𝗽 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗸𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗧-𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟭𝟱.𝟯𝟬 - 𝟭𝟳.𝟯𝟬 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗷𝗮, 𝗔𝗚𝗙 & 𝗖𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝟭𝟳.𝟯𝟬 - 𝟭𝟴.𝟯𝟬 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗸𝗲𝘀, 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗢’𝗡𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗮, 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗞𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 📍𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗲  𝟭𝟴:𝟰𝟱 - 𝟭𝟵:𝟰𝟱 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘅; 𝗔𝗚𝗙, 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝟮𝟬.𝟬𝟬 - 𝟮𝟮:𝟬𝟬 𝗩𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘃 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘆 (𝗦𝗮𝘀𝘂 𝗥𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶) The program features early works such as Black Celebration (1988),  Fade to Black (1990), and his Evil Series, to more recent works such as HS LST WRDZ (2021), Some Munich Moments 1937–1972 (2022) and Testament E: MF.slow.cancel.2014 (2024), amongst others. These will be screened in the cinema, and on screens within, across, and around the Amos Rex building, and accompanied by sloganeering posters, DIY t-shirt printing workshops, and talks with Tony Cokes, Bhavisha Panchia, Paul O’Neilland others, and are accompanied by newly commissioned performances and DJ sets responding to Cokes’s works.  Credit: Tony Cokes, Testament A: MF FKA K-P X KE RIP, 2019 (still).HD video, color, sound 35:22 minutes. Edition of 5, 2AP. Courtesy the artist, Greene Naftali, New York, Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. The event is curated by PUBLICS with Bhavisha Panchia, in partnership with Amos Rex.  Publics partners @saastamoinenfoundation

The event is from 6 am - 12 September to 6 am - 13 September and With 𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗦 approaching, PUBLICS co-curator Bhavisha Panchia offers a glimpse into the thinking behind the event: “24 Hours with Tony Cokes is a retrospective in rhythm. Moving across different sites, it unfolds at shifting tempos. Rather than offering a fixed overview, the exhibition recomposes Cokes’ work through varying spatial and temporal arrangements, creating new connections through repetition and variation. Distributed across the museum, it invites audiences to encounter Cokes’ work as an iterative, evolving experience – embracing both accumulation and dispersion. Cokes recomposes textual and musical excerpts into new audiovisual compositions, drawing from figures such as Mark Fisher, Donald Trump, Kodwo Eshun, Aretha Franklin, Killer Mike, and Radiohead. In this spirit of recomposing, artists AGF, Cucina Povera, Islaja, and Vladislav Delay act as sonic interlocutors, responding to Cokes’ practice through live performances that remix and reimagine his work.” Since the late 1980s, Tony Cokes has redefined media by interweaving textual, musical, and visual elements. Through his distinctive process of cutting, assembling, and rearranging fragments of history—archival footage, news broadcasts, political speeches, pop and club culture, theoretical texts, and conversations—Cokes constructs an incisive critique of media, power, and anti-Blackness, as well as consumerism and contemporary political discourse. The event is from 6 am - 12 September to 6 am - 13 September. Stills: Tony Cokes, Testament E: MF.slow.cancel.2014, 2024 (still). HD video, color, sound. 51:36 minutes. Courtesy the artist, Greene Naftali, New York, Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. The event is curated by PUBLICS with Bhavisha Panchia, in partnership with Amos Rex. Full schedule coming later this week https://amosrex.fi/en/exhibitions/24-hours-with-tony-cokes/ www.publics.fi/calendar/24-hours-with-tony-cokes @saastamoinenfoundation