Jasmine Tutum / Swantje Lichtenstein. Performance for two voices and electronics, 45 min
Occra and Arrow draw performative language and living archive into electro-acoustic inquiry. Words, thoughts, and color move through a universe of sound. Voice and language become sonic material. Dub folded into dub. Ways of knowing — dynamic systems. Body and balance.
Through voice, electronics, and the presence of those in the room, the work opens a participatory listening environment — one that resonates physically and emotionally. Racism, sexism, colorism, inequality, the growing influence of algorithmic systems: these subjects enter and leave the space as part of the material, without being stabilized or resolved. What becomes perceptible is how connection is produced — through timing, attention, interruption, overlap.
The audience is not separate from the performance. We are a nucleus — each presence a node, each body a frequency. The room is the instrument. Connection is the algorithm. Meaning arises in the relations between the work, the space, and whoever is present.
Listening is proposed as a physical and relational act — not as agreement, but as coexistence. The question machine runs: Where am I? When am I speaking? Who is speaking when we stop listening?
Art matters. Fun matters. All genders. All ages. New sound. Open, visible, peaceful.
https://swantjelichtenstein.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/proposal-occra-and-arrow-new_small.pdf
WITH JASMINE TUTUM (www.jasminetutum.com)
Born in Tokyo, Japan. Based in Freiburg, Germany since 2002.
Jasmine Tutum is a transdisciplinary artist and freelance curator working across photography, performance, sound, video installation, voice, and text. Born in Tokyo, raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and rooted in Gabon, she now lives and works in Freiburg, Germany. Her practice weaves photography, performance, and sound together to explore archives and the ways spaces hold memory — drawing on Afro-diasporic histories and Black feminist thought to examine how bodies carry and produce their own forms of history.
She completed a BFA in Photography/Art History at Concordia University (Montreal) and was awarded a Monbusho research scholarship to study art history at Kyoto University in Japan.
In 2021 she participated as an emerging artist in the Regionale 2021 (Germany/France/Switzerland), and has since received several Artist, Cultural, and Research Grants in Germany.
