Electricity, Asad Raza (2026) (EMPIRE LINES x E-WERK Luckenwalde)

Contemporary artist Asad Raza performs within the industrial infrastructures and ecologies of East Germany, conducting the development of electricity from Ancient Greece through the German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR) in the 20th century, via the dramaturgy and exhibition, Electricity (2026).

Asad Raza: Electricity is at E-WERK Luckenwalde until 25 April 2027. This episode was recorded in advance of Berlin Art Week 2026.

Asad Raza’s commission for the new Art Hall at Tate Liverpool opens in 2027.

Read about Asad Raza: Plot at Museoin in Bolzano (2023), and collaboration with Lydia Ourahmane, a participant in Biennale Gherdëina 10: Future Paradise Gardens, in Observer: observer.com/2026/08/arts-interview-samuel-leuenberger-curator-biennale-gherdeina-10/

Listen to composer and artist Raven Chacon on their composition for organ, Voiceless Mass (2021), performed with the Scottish Ensemble at St. Giles’ Cathedral as part of Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF) 2025: pod.link/1533637675/episode/MDA5MGQ3OGYtYWM4ZC00NjQ3LTg0YzktNjE2ODBmZDAwYmU5

Listen to filmmaker Saodat Ismailova on spirituality, dissent, and environmental extraction around the Aral Sea in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Central Asia, in their film Melted into the Sun (2024) in Nebula, produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film, as part of the Venice Biennale in 2024: pod.link/1533637675/episode/Y2IxOWI2YTUtMTI4MS00NzdiLWEyZmUtYmMyYTQ0NmQxMTQ2

Listen to Manthia Diawara, filmmaker, cultural theorist, and co-curator of The Trembling Museum at the Hunterian in Glasgow, recorded live in conversation with EMPIRE LINES as part of PEACE FREQUENCIES, a 24 hour live radio broadcast to mark International Human Rights Day in December 2023, and 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: pod.link/1533637675/episode/YjBhYmU2MzMtN2ZiNi00MDE0LTgyM2MtZmM5NWMwZGRhMTBm

For more about Édouard Glissant, sound, and vibration as ‘trembling’, listen to contemporary artist Libita Sibungu on their installation, ZED LOVE (2026), recorded live at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange in Penzance in July 2026: pod.link/1533637675/episode/Y2EwOGJlN2QtZTY4Ny00ZmRlLThhOWQtZTU3NjlhODBhYmQ3

And listen to Paul Gilroy live at the Black Atlantic Symposium in Plymouth, marking the 30th anniversary of his formative text in 2023: pod.link/1533637675/episode/90a9fc4efeef69e879b7b77e79659f3f

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