Em Rebmemer – How Do We Keep Meaning Alive?
Location and Working Hours
Inquisitor’s Palace, BirguEm Rebmemer – How Do We Keep Meaning Alive?
Target Audience: General Public
Category: Workshop
Price: €15
The general public is cordially invited to a conversation with Claire Chigo, a highly accomplished mezzo soprano and artist, and Joseph Calleja, curator/artist that unfolds alongside the artists’ installation works and performance. Audiences are invited to think with sound, silence, colour, and memory rather than being instructed by them. Through reflections on classical music, contemporary art, and lived experience, participants will explore how meaning is formed, lost, reversed, and reassembled—both individually and collectively.
Drawing on influences ranging from Purcell to Katie Paterson, Oliver Beer, and Gabrielle Goliath, the lecture situates the artists’ practice within broader questions of accessibility, attention, and ethical listening in a Biennale context. Rather than presenting fixed interpretations, the event opens space for shared reflection, and dialogue between disciplines. It asks a simple but urgent question: how do we keep meaning alive when voices fade, structures shift, and memory is never complete?
Em Rebmemer – Kif inżommu t-tifsira ħajja?
Il-pubbliku ġenerali huwa mistieden għal konverżazzjoni ma’ Claire Ghigo, mezzosopran u artista ta’ livell għoli, u ma’ Joseph Calleja, kuratur/artist, li tiżvolġi flimkien max-xogħlijiet u l-prestazzjoni tal-artisti. L-udjenzi huma mistiedna jaħsbu permezz tal-ħoss, tas-skiet, tal-kulur, u tal-memorja aktar milli jiġu mgħallma minnhom. Permezz ta’ riflessjonijiet fuq il-mużika klassika, l-arti kontemporanja u l-esperjenza tal-ħajja, il-parteċipanti jesploraw kif it-tifsira tissawwar, tintilef, titreġġa’ lura, u tingħaqad mill-ġdid – kemm individwalment kif ukoll kollettivament.
Influwenzata minn artisti bħal Purcell, Katie Paterson, Oliver Beer u Gabrielle Goliath, it-taħdita tqiegħed il-prattika tal-artisti fi ħdan mistoqsijiet usa’ dwar l-aċċessibbiltà, l-attenzjoni u s-smigħ etiku fil-kuntest ta’ Biennale. Minflok ma jippreżenta interpretazzjonijiet fissi, l-avveniment jiftaħ spazju għal riflessjoni maqsuma ma’ oħrajn u għal djalogu bejn dixxiplini differenti. Jistaqsi mistoqsija sempliċi iżda urġenti: Kif inżommu t-tifsira ħajja meta l-ilħna jintfew, l-istrutturi jinbidlu, u l-memorja qatt mhi kompluta?
