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Since 2017, Ko-hum has advanced networked forms of promotion and circulation of ideas that encompass digital strategies, partnerships, engagement programs, and campaigns, facilitating the premiere of new works, and presenting a diverse array of artists and cultural producers working across the fields of sound, film, publishing, visual and performing arts.

As a platform, Ko-hum performs a development function in the implementation of projects that demand considered listening, reading, and viewing, placing emphasis on bringing recognition to creative practitioners that withstand the atomization of culture and, through sustained inquiry and creative research, endeavor to enrich the public sphere.

At the heart of our practice is a process-based relationship between artists, writers, media outlets, event organizers, music labels, bookings, venues, cultural institutions, and audiences, which seeks to give each project space to find their rhythm, public outputs, and discourse.

We consider such a process to be a collective enterprise, a workspace for cultivating authentic relationships with a diverse range of collaborators.

Ko-hum is dedicated to sustaining a dialogue between a range of disciplines by fostering a dynamic influx of ideas into the creative landscape, and provide a platform where adventurous minds can encounter creativity that contextualizes, interprets, educates, and expands culture to the edges of the contemporary experience.

Norient is an audio-visual gallery and a community (of practice) for the sound of the world: for contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, projects and events like the Norient Festival. Norient conceives music, sound, and noise as seismographs of our time, facilitates space and place for thinkers and artists from currently fifty countries to tell new and different stories of the now and tomorrow. The goal is to support (sub)cultural diversity, broaden horizons, and open up dialogue across people, continents, and disciplines.

The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series. It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’s space for ethnographic data and bachelor, master’s and PhD theses. Topics range from electronic music in South Africa, rap in Pakistan, punk in Bolivia, free improvisation in Lebanon, Neue Musik to field recordings from landscapes, villages and cities, to reflections of diverse topics like the universality of music, noise-cancelling headphones, exoticism, or post-colonialism.

Norient Place includes the Norient Festival and its satellites, lectures, performances, or concerts, curated and co-curated with the community of practice. Norient worked with: e.g. ZKM Karlsruhe, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, CTM Festival Berlin, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Keleketla! Library Johannesburg, 100Copies Music Space Cairo, Rough Trade East London, Rewire Festival The Hague, Base Milano, H3K Basel, Wiener Festwochen, Zentrum Paul Klee Bern, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Theaterspektakel Zürich, EPFL Lausanne, Bad Bonn Kilbi Düdingen, Castelgrande Bellinzona, Klang – Moor – Schopfe Gais.

The Norient Shop offers publications and releases. And the planned Norient Lab experiments with new formats and practices on how to perform music and sound research in the future.