As part of Rewire’s context programme 2023, Times and Territories will focus on how establishing connections across time and space, while challenging existing borders and linear notions of time, are fundamental for contemporary and experimental music and sound practices. During this assembly, artists are invited to discuss their working methods and collective desires to resist colonial models of listening, by expressing themselves in terms of their arts and craft and their critical faculties. Led by artist, researcher, and writer Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, artists performing at Rewire will enter into one on one conversations as critical friends, reviewing each other's work and discussing the role of temporality and spatiality, fostering equitable modes of collective sounding and listening together. 

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an artist, composer, researcher, and writer. Chattopadhyay produces works for large-scale installation and live performance addressing contemporary issues of ecology, migration, race, and decoloniality. He has received numerous residencies, fellowships, and international awards. His sound works have been widely exhibited, performed, or presented across the globe. Chattopadhyay has an expansive body of scholarly publications in sound theory and aesthetics in leading peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of four books, The Nomadic Listener (2020), The Auditory Setting (2021), Between the Headphones(2021), and Sound Practices in the Global South (2022). Chattopadhyay holds a PhD in artistic research and sound studies from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, Leiden, and is currently a visiting professor at the Critical Media Lab, Basel.  

Stas Shärifullin is a musician, researcher and artist working with sound and contexts of the sonic. Stas’ current practice resides within the domains of critical sound studies and action-based sonic ethnography (‘action-as-research’), addressing the variation of inequality production across non-western imperialisms and unbalanced power dynamics carried out under neoliberal policies. Stas is a Doktorierende at the University of Basel, an associate researcher at the Critical Media Lab, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, and guest lecturer at Sound Studies and Sonic Arts M.A., UdK Berlin. Basel, CH www.hmot.club