Musical Engament & Intercultural Dialogue

This Thursday, at Behind This Wall, I will be doing something that I’m still trying to understand while I build it. For four hours, I will curate and play Venezuelan music. Not in a linear way. Not as a historical timeline. Not as a “best of Venezuela” playlist. More as an experiment to see what…

Ashworth and Larkham’s idea of “building a new heritage” helps me question whether Venezuelan musical heritage can be preserved only by protecting inherited forms, or whether migration requires the construction of a new heritage shaped by memory, remix, reinterpretation and diaspora. Virgil Abloh’s distinction between the tourist and the purist helps me reflect on my…

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My research network begins with Venezuelan artists, producers, DJs, cultural organisers and listeners who are connected to musical memory, migration, remix culture and contemporary reinterpretation. Because my project asks how Venezuelan musical heritage can be preserved, transformed and transmitted through a living archive, I need a network that includes both people who create music and…

WHAT How can Venezuelan musical heritage be preserved despite migration for future generations’ cultural identity? WHY As a Venezuelan abroad, I understand Venezuelan identity as something carried through songs, memories, news, images, jokes and cultural symbols. These fragments connect us to where we come from, but they can also keep us attached to the past.…