LABOUR

we spoke with @metal_magazine about darkness, noise, the avant-garde and music for fashion ✨ portraits by Evelyn Bencicova @evelyn_bencicova #computermusic #noise #fashion #labour #jacquesattali #collaboration @khyamallami @gmbh_official

@studio.labour Tower of Silence currently on view at @juliastoschekfoundation in Berlin This is a capture of @hatam.farahnaz and @colinhacklander inside their newest large-scale commission piece, Tower of Silence (2024). It is part of the AFTER IMAGES exhibition, which will take place from 11.09.2024 to 27.04.2025. This multisensory installation evokes the 3,000-year-old Zoroastrian death ritual of excarnation toward a vision of the soul’s transfiguration after death. Every half hour, participants encounter an activation of sound and light through which LABOUR explores three types of silence: forced silence, stoic silence, and profound silence. Come for an artist talk on November 28th with the curator, Lisa Long ✨ #towerofsilence #studiolabour #farahnazhatam #colinhacklander #juliastochekfoundarion #afterimages #exhibition #photodocumentation #evelynbencicova

tower of silence, 2024 by @studio.labour (Farahnaz Hatam & @colinhacklander ) this multisensory installation evokes the 3,000-year-old Zoroastrian death ritual of excarnation towards a vision of the soul’s transfiguration after death. mixed-media installation; sculpture, sound, seating and light at @juliastoschekfoundation Berlin within the AFTER IMAGES exhibition from 11.09.2024 - 27.04.2025 created while in residence at @calliesberlin ✨ Photo Credits: Installation shots by @alwin_lay LABOUR artist photo by @evelyn_bencicova artist talk on November 28th with the curator, Lisa Long ✨

Pleased to announce we are the new visiting professors of Immersion & Interaction at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in the Media Art department ✨ We offer our seminar - sonic activation - based on our format of the same name, along with an introduction to SuperCollider, and individual consultations. We are happy to bring a strong focus on sound to the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, which was founded together with the ZKM (Center for Art and Media), and assumes the pedagogical effort of bringing together traditional arts with media technology and electronic production processes through inter-disciplinary projects. School is in session! first photo by @evelyn_bencicova #spatialsound #immersion #professors #avantgarde #sonicactivation

Guestlecturer/ Artist Talk 12.3., 7 pm @hsmbasel_music_and_scene LABOUR @studio.labour is the Berlin-based artist duo of Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander who create works based on sound. Collaborating as a duo since 2013, they founded LABOUR in 2018 with their work, next time, die consciously. They have presented their work all over the world, including at Donaueschinger Musiktage, Martin Gropius Bau, Kraftwerk Berlin, Sharjah Biennial, Art Basel, Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin, Grand National Theatre Dakar, EMΣT National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, MUDAM Luxembourg and Berghain Klubnacht. They have released music on labels such as Honest Jon’s, Kuboraum Editions, and their own imprint, studio LABOUR. Their installation work tower of silence was recently acquired by the Julia Stoschek Collection. They regularly collaborate on works for theater, performance, video and fashion; are fellows of Villa Aurora Los Angeles; have a monthly radio show on NTS; and are long-term residents of Callie’s shared sound studio in Berlin. They previously ran the experimental music venue in Berlin called N.K. Projekt. For the occasion of this artist talk, Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander (LABOUR) will speak about their practice, including their format of ‘sonic activations’. This will cover their research, working process, sound synthesis and operating across different mediums and categories, including performance, installation, concert and theater. sonic activations, is the evolving site-specific format developed by LABOUR since 2018 that explores and presents architectural space with sound, drawing on a building’s structural framework through its different rooms and interstitial spaces to encourage active listening. Works in this format often engage performers, unamplified sounds and loudspeakers to create a sequence of spatial listening situations, with the audience led by sound from one sonic event to the next. The duo will focus on specific recent works including, dispersion of subjectivity (2025), more heat than light (2025), tower of silence (2024), and sungazing (2022-ongoing). In Cooperation @kasernebasel and @magicmarcel_ showing 19.3.

🎞️🌍𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐫 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐟𝐢-𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐢 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫   Dieser Filmblock sucht die Nähe von Orten und Gemeinschaften. Denn senegalesischer Sabar, indischer Dub bis hin zu Folk sind eng verwurzelt mit dem Land, der Arbeit, und gemeinsam verbrachter Zeit. Musik ist hier keine Bühne, kein Scheinwerferlicht; sie ist ein Rhythmus, der in Familien weitergegeben und im Alltag lebendig gehalten wird.  𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝐏𝐁 lauschen in Dörfer, Nachbarschaften und Familien hinein und vermitteln eine leise Botschaft, die hellhörig macht: Klang gehört irgendwohin – und er erinnert sich. *** This film block stays close to the ground and to community. From the Senegalese music style sabar to Indian dub and folk music, sound grows out of land, labor, and shared time. Music isn’t staged or spotlighted here; it’s rhythm held in families, passed through practice, carried by breath and everyday life.  𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝐏𝐁 move through villages and neighborhoods, listening to how music holds place and how place holds people. A quiet insistence: sound belongs somewhere – and it remembers. 🎬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 – Hiroo Tanaka @doggytastes @berlinatonal Moe Sow ✨𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞 🎬𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬 – @ranaghose @reproduceartists 🎬 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝐏𝐁 – Surabhi Sharma @bidesiasur 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝟏𝟎 ⏰ 17. Jan 2026 · ⏰ 20:00 · 8pm 📍 @kinoinderreitschule #NorientFestival #2026 #Bern #films #dance #tradition #place #Senegal #India #thenowinsound

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PREMIERE 17.01.2026 8pm as part of Norient Sound Festival Transcriptions is dedicated to Doudou Ndiaye Coumba Rose (1930-2015). Shot before and during the COVID pandemic on site in Dakar, Transcriptions explores sabar drumming not just as music, but as a form of cultural knowledge, ancestral communication, and resistance. It is a film about sound as memory, about how rhythm becomes an archive of social structure, gender dynamics and belief systems in Senegalese griot traditions. The drumming, once used to send messages across kingdoms, now echoes in a contemporary world where its function has been continuously reinvigorated and maintains significant societal relevance to this day. Rather than focusing on performance or representation alone, this film investigates what it means to carry a sonic legacy forward. Through the voices and practices of Doudou N’Diaye Rose’s family - each navigating their own path within and beyond tradition - Transcriptions presents music as an archive of time shaped by history, fractured by modernity, and vibrating with possibility. Photos by @l_v_o__ Executive Producers: Colin Hacklander and Farahnaz Hatam as @studio.labour Laurens Von Oswald @l_v_o__ Harry Grass @moe_soww Film by: Hiroo Tanaka Original music from Labour Shackleton Beatrice dillion Lamine Fofana drone operator & additional footage - Cornelius Diemer assistant camera - Tijan Sow additional camera - Adriano Rosselli additional camera - Moustapha Ndongo Berlin Footage -Felix Schuster VFX, 3D art direction - Utku Onal Title design, typography - Bora Baskan Audio mix: Alucuin Stevenson Colourist - Arttom Khazau coordination, translation - Paulo Reachi coordination, translation - Sandra Charpiot onsite translation - Jean Noël. k. Aguiar subtitles & translation - Awa Diagne Lo featuring the family of Doudou Ndiaye Rose (in order of appearance): Moustapha Ndiaye Rose Birame Ndiaye Rose Thioune Ndiaye Rose Mouhamadou Lamine Ndiaye Mamadou Ndiaye Rose Ndoffene Thioune Bassine Ndiaye Rose Mami Dieyle Pape Badara Ndiaye Sadio Laye Tapha Ndiaye Mboup Aas Mbaye Maimouna Leye Fatou Ndoye Mbaye Ndeye Doucoure Abou Sow Ablaye Thiam.

Lexicon of Emergent Subjectivities PARASOCIALITY THANATOSONICS INTERSYNTONIC PSYCHOPOMPOLOGY AUTOPOIETIC DRIFT INFODEMIC INTERMEDIATION PHYGITALITY UNTHOUGHT SOMATEXTUAL POLYMORPHISM ANORGANIC GEOTRAUMATICS DIFFEREND MORTOTECHNICS ENTROPOETICS ONTOSYNTHETICS ANGLOSSIA XENOTATION ESCHATOGENETICS ALGORITHMICITY INFOMATERIALITY INTERPENETRATION COGNISPHERE NONCONSCIOUSNESS MINDBODIES METASOMATIC SWARMACHINES EPIPHENOMENON VARIANTS NECROTEMPORALITIES PSYCHOGEOTECHNICS XENOSUBJECTIVATION POSTLINGUISTICITY TRANSDUCTIVITY SOFT THOUGHT from “dispersion of subjectivity” (2025). 34 unique texts on the front, uniform text on the back, set on oversized garments in 3 colors & styles (black hoodies, white long sleeve t-shirts, beige t-shirts), worn by the performers who moved throughout the space in a sonic choreography producing sound within the composition. This list highlights emergent subjectivities via semantics, a tension between narration and simulation, addressing themes of subjectivity as mediated through contemporary technological, environmental and spiritual dimensions, with a proportion incorporating themes from eschatology and death studies, thus spanning subjectivity in life and subjectivity after life. The words are all existing niche terminology, jargon or neologisms, with an intended playfulness in their density. Blessed to have such a righteous group of performers in Luxembourg! Commissioned by @mudamlux curated by @leonkruijswijk with curatorial assistance by @sapinx during @luxembourgartweek #softthought #katherinehayles @hatam.farahnaz @colinhacklander #contemporaryart #performance #percussion #subjectivity

🎞️ 𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 Transcriptions führt uns zu Senegals reicher Tradition der Sabar-Trommeln. Wir folgen deren Spuren durch Familien, dem kulturellen Erbe und sich wandelnden Geschlechterrollen. Ethnografische Dialoge erhalten einen spekulativen Touch. In diesem eindringlichen Porträt lebt Rhythmus als Tradition und Zukunft, die stetig neu interpretiert werden.  Transcriptions looks at Senegal’s sabar drumming tradition, tracing its lineage through family, heritage, and evolving gender roles. Blending ethnographic dialogue with a speculative touch, the film gives attention to both the musicians and the music, revealing a practice that honors tradition while reshaping it. A focused and resonant portrait of rhythm as culture, continuity, and change . 🎬 Transcriptions ·@doggytastes @studio.labour @berlinatonal · SEN 2025· 30' ☄️WORLD PREMIERE☄️ 🎬 Bass Boss · @rhanaghose · IND 2025, 17'  🎬 Music in a Village Called 1PB · @surabhisharma  · IND 2025 · 132'   17. Jan 2026 · ⏰ 20.00 · 8pm  📍 @kinoinderreitschule #NorientFestival26 #NF26 #PlacePoetics

dispersion of subjectivity (II), 2025 autostereogram, digital print 136 x 149 cm second in the series and complementing the first, these iterations of figures are based on a photograph taken by Farah, and again transformed by digital aberrations resulting from the creation of an autostereogram, wherein an addition layer of depth emerges when viewed in a particular way. DRIFT In a parallel sensorial analogy, these two visual works reinforce the experience of auditory hallucination within the musical composition, a hidden embeddedness. DRIFT Commissioned by @mudamlux curated by @leonkruijswijk with curatorial assistance by @sapinx during @luxembourgartweek . by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander) #subjectivity #contemporanyart #supercollider #drift

dispersion of subjectivity (I), 2025 autostereogram, digital print 88 x 233 cm the original water color by Farah is transformed by digital aberrations resulting from the creation of an autostereogram, wherein a hidden layer of depth emerges through a specific manner of viewing the image. DRIFT these 34 iterations of figures formed the basis for the generation of musical material for the performance, for example the work’s main rhythmic figures in 17/8, groups of 7-3-5-2, 2-5-3-7, etc, and macro summations… this one dedicated to the brilliant Gerhard Schütze (d. 2017). miss you, G! DRIFT commissioned by @mudamlux curated by @leonkruijswijk with curatorial assistance by @sapinx during @luxembourgartweek by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander) @hatam.farahnaz @colinhacklander #drift #dispersionofsubjectivity #LABOUR #contemporaryart #supercollider

dispersion of subjectivity by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander) with percussionist Yi Ping @aimee_ajamais of Percussion des Strasbourg @percussions_de_strasbourg Newly commissioned large scale performance work at MUDAM @mudamlux curated by Léon Kruijswijk @leonkruijswijk with curatorial assistance by Nicole Wittmann @sapinx . Multi-level spatialized 15 channel sound composition, two 'sixxen' (large metallophones conceived by Xenakis) & percussion, 34 unique garments, group performers and spatialized percussion, two new artworks: autostereogram, digital prints. Our format of 'sonic activations' has brought us to incredible spaces, but this grand and porous architecture is really something ✨ Thank you to Percussion des Strasbourg for the collaboration and for the amazing instruments ✨ Very grateful for the trust and support by Leon and Nicole. Such a great pleasure to realize this work with an incredible group of people - unforgettable 🖤✨ Hats and jewelry by Kuboraum / Innerraum 🖤 @kuboraum Organized by Mudam Luxembourg in collaboration with @philharmonie_lux Philharmonie Luxembourg, during Luxembourg Art Week @luxembourgartweek . @hatam.farahnaz @colinhacklander #supercollider #SOFTTHOUGHT