Exile Exhale Exit intents an exca­va­tion into the impli­ca­tions of chang­ing mean­ing assigned to words one uses to describe dif­fer­ent sites of the mind with­in migra­to­ry move­ments. Exile Exhale Exit implies an exor­cism of lan­guage and com­mu­ni­ca­tion, notions of home and away, mobil­i­ty and dis­lo­ca­tion, resis­tance and iso­la­tion, con­ser­va­tion and era­sure and grow­ing sprouts of oth­er mat­ters at hand. Exile Exhale Exit is an instance which inten­tion­al­ly pri­or­i­tizes feel­ing and poiesis to any oth­er kind of knowl­edge, focus­ing on text to sound as well as sound to text, in order to pro­cre­ate new mean­ings. As a premise, Exile Exhale Exit looks for­ward for inter­ac­tion between vocal or tex­tu­al traces of oth­er times embod­ied into the one­ness, but not into indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. Into this illus­tra­tion, Exile Exhale Exit is a radio broad­cast in dif­fer­ent Eng­lish­es, planned to morph into oth­er medi­ums for a pos­si­ble future.

“For us exile is not only con­not­ed to the state of emer­gency and the sta­tus of refugees, but it’s look­ing into sen­si­tive ques­tions of belong­ing, envi­ron­ments of cre­ative expres­sion, every­day life expe­ri­ence of com­mu­ni­ty build­ing, resis­tance, rejec­tion and iso­la­tion; or sim­ply con­nect­ed to inter­twined con­se­quences of liv­ing out­side of a giv­en place, think­ing out­side of known cat­e­gories or tak­ing actions out­side of giv­en frame­works.” Jas­mi­na and Ralf.

first mobile exit for ODD in Bucharest June 2019

With mod­er­a­tion by Jas­mi­na Al-Qaisi, Ralf Wendt, voic­es of ODD audi­ence and mem­bers, Cristi­na Bog­dan, Anca Bucur, with voice record­ing of Nina Cass­ian, Tocotron­ic  song ‘aber hier leben, nein danke’, read­ing in Eng­lish the text ‘Der Ausweis’ by Peter Pan­ter and Johan­na Billing’s film sound Mag­i­cal World;

sec­ond mobile exit from Berlin for Moon­ah Radio Tas­ma­nia Decem­ber 2019